Google| Subject | Re: Even *MORE* Scandinavian linguistics; was: Republicanism still an offence in England? |
| From | Troels Forchhammer |
| Date | 2002-05-20 17:19 (2002-05-20 17:19) |
| Message-ID | <3CE913F7.8DDDBB4A@ThisIsFake.dk> |
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| Newsgroups | alt.fan.tolkien |
| Follows | Henriette Frans |
| Followups | Pradera (1h & 8m) Henriette Frans (15h & 15m) |
Henriette Frans wrote:
Henriette FransHey - count us Danes in there as well ;-) When you talk about our number system there is only a few illogicalities we don't employ ;-)
chris cunningham wrote:chris cunninghamHenriette Frans
<snip> side note: arabic seems to be the same, except that, for "twenty 'til five", they'll say "khamsa illa thulth": five except a third, for 4:40.
I love this "Even *MORE* Scandinavian linguistics " thread in which I have seen pass, apart from all the Scandinavian languages: English, Dutch, French and Italian, Celtic, Polish, Russian, and now even Arabic!chris cunninghamHenriette Frans
oh, the arabs also put the ones before the tens, btw, as in five and twenty for 25, or one hundred, five and twenty, for 125
Strange, that the Dutch and the Germans have that in common with the Arabs, whereas none of the other languages we discussed have that illogical habit.
I believe that I've heard that there is an East-european language which have the normal singular and plural, but in addition a third form in between for a few - the actual use of which depends on the word - it would for instance demand fewer houses to go from a few to many than it would beers ;-)
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Albert Einstein
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