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Sigurjón Kristjánsson (X) United Kingdom Local time: 19:26 English to Icelandic + ...
ERRATA
Jul 27, 2015
ÁTTAVITI, does NOT translate as DIRECTION SHOWER, BUT DIRECTION(AL) BEACON/LIGHTHOUSE.
Another made up language, that can fit on a card, is ESPERANTO,
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Natalie Soper United Kingdom Local time: 19:26 French to English + ...
ALMOST anything...
Jul 28, 2015
Numbers are also minimal. Lang initially only had words for one (wan), two (tu), and several (mute). Many Toki Pona speakers have expanded the word luka (hand or arm) to mean five, and mute to mean 10. The terms are repeated additively until the desired number is reached.
“There are some mathematician-like people who insist that they want to be able to say 7,422.7,” Lang laughed. “I say, ‘That’s not exactly the point.'”
Numbers are also minimal. Lang initially only had words for one (wan), two (tu), and several (mute). Many Toki Pona speakers have expanded the word luka (hand or arm) to mean five, and mute to mean 10. The terms are repeated additively until the desired number is reached.
“There are some mathematician-like people who insist that they want to be able to say 7,422.7,” Lang laughed. “I say, ‘That’s not exactly the point.'”
It sounds like the language is evolving already. Surely it won't stay at 123 words for long! ▲ Collapse
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“There are some mathematician-like people who insist that they want to be able to say 7,422.7,” Lang laughed. “I say, ‘That’s not exactly the point.'”
That is very much the point. One of the main reasons why people want to communicate with other people is so they can sell them stuff. "Many, many dollars" won't cut it when you're trying to hock your new iPaws.
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meirs Israel Local time: 21:26 Romanian to English + ...
Old Hebrew numbersl/numbers as Gematria
Jul 31, 2015
Still in current use nowadays, the Gematria Hebrew number notation system doesn't even need names for numbers/numerals - 27 glyphs of the alphabet are used as "numerals" for 1-9, 10-90 and 100-900 (and once again for thousands of) in the order of the alphabet to express any positive integer. In speech, one just utters the names of the respective letters/glyphs in a top-down manner. the numeral for zero is not needed in this system.
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