Talk:Ido/Lesson I3

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 * Okay, I know I'm just talking to myself, here, but this is the discussion page and I'd like to discuss this if there's anyone who knows Ido and is willing to argue about this with me. The way I see it, the number system seems to be a perverse compromise instead of a system based on logic. Considering the esoteric nature of this constructed language and its purpose as an uber reformed and logical language, it seems that this number system is out of place. Why not use, for instance, the International System (SI) as the basis for numbers? (Deka, Centa, Kila, Mega, Giga, Tera, Peta, Exa, Zeta, Yota, etc.) I'll admit, I don't know Ido, but I hardly have much compunction about suggesting a reform to something that gives me serious pause about progressing further. With so few speakers it's hardly out of line or impossible to change. This number system flies in the face of being a logical constructed language when it's holding onto an old world 'big thousand' miliardo. Come on, this is the industrial age, and most of the world uses metric, so how is it not logical to base a constructed language's number logic on that system?

I would propose a system something more like this:

0 Nil (Or Nul, whatever. Not important.)

1 Un

2 Du

3 Tri

4 Quar

5 Kin

6 Sis

7 Sep

8 Ok

9 Non

10 Deka

11 Deka-un

12 Deka-du

13 Deka-tri

20 Duas (or some inflection of Du so that they aren't saying two tens, unique names for multiples of ten are useful.)

21 Duas-du

100 Centa

539 Kincenta Trias-non (Or similar inflections.)

1000 Kila

1,000,000 Mega

1,000,000,000 Giga

Just sayin'... Whale biologist. --66.188.85.56 (talk) 14:28, 10 August 2009 (UTC)