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From: donh@netcom.com (Don HARLOW)
Subject: Re: Breves (Re: Diacritic symbol names)
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Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 04:02:53 GMT
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iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski) skribis en lastatempa afisxo <CyGKLu.Ktz@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>:
>
>Anyway, I'm not saying that there was anything wrong with giving _c_
>and _j_ their Polish values.  Re _u_-breve, I favour the explanation
>that it was introduced because /w/ mostly occurred in such positions
>where the source languages used simply _u_.  (For an alternative,

Might be worth suggesting here that the form _u_-breve was most likely 
modelled on the Russian _i_-kratkoje (i-breve).

>look at Hom-Idyomo, a monstrous derivative of Esperanto, in which
>all _i_ and _u_ adjacent to another vowel are replaced by _y_ and
>_w_, respectively.  A profile of it, written by me, was published
>in Rick Harrison's _Journal for Planned Languages_ 18, Spring 1993.)
>
Thanks, I once found a book on Hom-Idyomo in a library in Fullerton. One 
look really was enough.

>>How many fantasticatillions are there in a zillion?
>
>I'd rather not discuss this subject, as UK and US usage probably differ.
>We can't even agree on what to call 1E3*1E6, so why bother with 1EZ/1EF?
>
Or, for that matter, 1E3*1E9. Or...

For those who wish to pursue this topic, calculations are possible 
based on the number of fantasticatillions of dollars that will fit into 
four cubic acres. This figure is documented somewhere in the literature, 
though not the precise mix of bills and coinage.

(In fact, Ivan, I believe that the individual who gathered this 
information was originally from Scotland, before he emigrated to 
Calisota.)

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