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--- Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@hidden.email>
wrote:
> Well, I don't really see what's wrong with
> that. My guess is that in 99,9 % of
> the cases the context will make clear whether
> the cardinal or the ordinal is
> meant. After all, the cardinal would be
> normally be followed by a plural, and
> the ordinal by a singular, right?
Not necessarily. It depends on construction:
English is notorious for using the singular after
numbers where you might logically expect a
plural.
The ordinal, yes I agree that the singular would
be usual.
> --- Padraic Brown skrzypszy:
>
> > Why do anything about it!? ;) How are chimvi
> > and findu related, if at all?
>
> Probably in the same way as French "cinq" and
> "quinze" are related. ;))
But those are five and fifteen respectively, no?
Chimvi and findu are (or seem to be) cinq and
cinquième (? - it's been a while!) respectively.
Quinque and quintus, anyway.
Padraic.
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Passe lê tempeor po rizer; passe lê tempeor pois Ddé.
-- per tradicièn Niponor
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