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Re: [lojban] Using Lojban in 'very' defined contexts (eg. maths)
On Monday, March 05, 2012 07:14:17 Sid wrote:
> doi la'oi Fröjd
>
> English uses eleven and twelve because it's base-12, not base-10.
Proto-Germanic may have had alternating bases 12 and 10, but all modern
Germanic languages are strictly decimal, and "eleven" and "twelve" are just
leftovers of PGmc usage.
Some Italo-Western Romance languages switch between sixteen and seventeen,
others between fifteen and sixteen. Neither is what Latin did; Latin counted up
to septendecim, then backward to viginti. Sometimes, for fun, I count in
Spanish as one did in Latin: once, doce, trece, catorce, quince, sece,
setence, dosdeveinte, undeveinte, veinte.
Pierre
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