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Ten

9.999999999

9999 ^ (1/2)

Novem.

The similarity in base to "new" throughout IndoEuropean appears to be simply a coincidence, I have never seen a theory making anything out of it.

tseebíí

שבע. By my oath, I rest on the matter.

Nane

Is it not interesting how certain language groups use for this what appears to have fossil dual markings, hence the famous octo? In some, as here, there is a clear reduplication though obscured by phonetic shidts, nne equating to 4. Perhaps to be explained from the accompanying [in many cultures one counts both physically and verbally] gesture of two 4-fingered hands. I don't know of a modern culture that uses that gesture, though. In some languages 6 is also reduplicated, as frequently in Bantu -ta-n-tato where -tato = 3.

JakobVergil, do you do Navajo? Athabaskan is fascinating but a little rich for my blood; xAlgonquian is more my speed. I am not sure why, because Athabaskan has all my favorites; access to tone, intriguing phonology, complex verbs, neither under nor over agglutinating. It could be all those stem alternates in the verb. Somebody needs to really work out what happened there.

Natty Boh, I assume you are taking your cue from Jake, but you of all peopolde are getting ahead of yourself.

the 3rd prime

I don't do dine' but I spend some time on the rez.
both as a child and as an adult.
their consonants are mind bogling and endless
(at least 33)
it is agglutinating but everything is a contraction,
it is also tonal and adverse to borrowing words
and they mumble.
I don't know if dine' is do-able.
-Jake

oh and the word for five "ashdlaʼ" means something like gone because out have run out of fingers.

The countdown was at 8?

the nane threw me for a loop too
I think we are at 4.
-Jake

On my count topic

This is like Random.

IX

No, no, do not lose count, the footnotes are gracenotes and not the fundamental.

Ocho it is. Or if you move to a Gothic font ahtau, if I remember correctly.

And while some of what I do or say does a kind of mental Brownian motion I assure you random is not the name of the game.

Oh, it is doable - dudes have doed it.


But not for the faint of heart, at least those with my head. Navajo and Apache [not to leave them out, respect for my fellow translator's namesake, after all] are the worst you can get in Athabascan. I have looked at some of the Californian branch - not as bad, and I think the northern branch is the best - a coworker just referred to one of those groups yesterday, he - lucky him - is taking Ling classes right now, semantics and pragmatics yet, sooner him than me.

All for Pragmatics, just do not want to be on that end of a course dealing with Pragmatics.

I just meant not doable by me.
anyway the dine' have decided they don't need any belagona to interperate their culture for them.
-Jake

They have been too much shot over. No anthropologist can afford to go outside the country [one of my first students after being doctored - not my own, I owe it to a British colleague who analogized to knighted, not thinking of the other readings - was an Anthro grad. He had his out of country research all plotted but his dept. cut it out from underr him and shot him toward the Southwest. A pity - good guy nice guy.

Do you read Hillerman?

hey there is nothing wrong with the southwest.
(well there is but it is were I grew up)

I met Hillerman but have not read him.
-Jake