Re: The difficulties of being weirder than English
| From: | Garth Wallace <gwalla@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 27, 2004, 1:09 |
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Remi Villatel wrote:
> I think that even if singular and dual are mixed together, there
> still must be a way to distinguish them. For example, the common non-plural
> article means "a couple of" and if you really want to specify one thing,
> you
> must use an expression like "a half of".
>
> Mathematics become very interesting when you count: zero, half, couple,
> couple and half, double couple, double couple and half,... groupe.
Not necessarily. AIUI, it just means nouns would be inflected
identically for singular and dual, but doesn't restrict the numeral
system. If English used a singular=dual system, counting hands would be
like "one hand, two hand, three hands, four hands".
> Yes, mathematics must be in base 6 or 12... or 4 or 8 or 16... You choose.
I don't see why...
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