Re: Re : Conlang-to-conlang translation project

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Date: Saturday, May 08, 1999 8:10 AM
Subject: Re : Conlang-to-conlang translation project


>I don't have
>figures over 20 in Tunu ("20" is "one person") so I wrote "a couple (wife
and
>husband)" for "40" but I really don't know how to manage 50.
>
>Thiamas
>
Speaking of interesting ways of counting in conlangs...
Am I to take it that you use names of objects that characterize
the number to stand for that number?

If so, I'd like to see more of that system.  If not, it sounds like
an interesting approach to naming the digits in a conlang:

0 -- hole  (nothing in it)
1 -- pebble (just one)
2 -- legs (come in twos)
3 -- clover (has three leaves)
4 -- ??
5 -- hand (five fingers)
6 -- ??
...
10,000 -- forest
1,000,000 -- stars

--Gary