And why?

Let's just say us Totseans got ourselves an island and wanted to express our sovereignty with a number system ...

Personally I think the English numbers sound shit when you say one to ten - there's no pattern/rhyme or anything. Numbers are so fucking important in a language so I think they should at least sound beautiful when you say them, like a poem or something to show them respect for how much they've advanced our civilisation.

I'd personally go with:

1. Ace (like in cards. I think it sounds 100x more top-dog like than 'one', which sounds rather dull and zzzzzzzz tbh. A numerical system needs to start off with a bang to get language learners wanting to learn on, and I don't feel that 'One' is exciting enough.)
2. Deus (2 = Deuce in cardgames, but Deus means god in Latin. God has been a very influential guy in the last few thousand years so I think he deserves a place in the number system. It would be one, but it might get a little confusing for the French and Spanish and some other irrelevant countries.)
3. Trey (from cards again. Poker is VERY important, more than people think. It's been the number one driving force of the world economy for the last 1500 years so i think it should it's just right to have the first 3 numbers dedicated to it)
4. Qat (pronounced cat. cats are coolcats so they should be in the numerical system, and them crafty Arabs shouldn't be the only people to have a Q not proceeded by a U. The number 444,444,444 will officially be 'Longqat'.)
5. Song (everyone likes songs, and five sounds dull as shit.)
6. Fay (rhymes with trey, and fay is quite a nice name, reminds me of spring)
7. Slevin (lucky number slevin.)
8. Tots (paying homage to the temple)
9. Nene (fuck knows.))
10. Xen/Jhen/Gen/Jin/Gin (Xen's the final world in Half Life, so in order to commemerorate my 10th anniversary since I completed the game it gets the honour of having a number!

Now say it aloud!
Ace, Deus, Trey // Kat, Song, Fay // Slevin, Tots, Neen, Jhen! Doesn't that sound far better?


What's all your grand ideas?

1. this
2. is
3. an
4. extremely
5. retarded
6. and
7. pointless
8. idea
9. lol
10. 5char

1. http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g274/Marneus767/LOLWUT5.jpg
2. http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g274/Marneus767/LOLWUT5.jpg
3. http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g274/Marneus767/LOLWUT5.jpg
???
10. Profit.

one
two
three
five
four
six
seven
nine
eight
ten

I
Really
Needed
That
Thank
You
For
making
me
Laugh

1 - unus
2 - duo
3 - tres
4 -quartuor
5 -quinque
6 - sex
7 - septem
8 - octo
9 - novem
10 - decem

Latin should be the worlwide default spoken language

ben
cen
den
fen
gen (hard G sound)
hen
jen
ken
len

Phonetic representation.

Oh-ne
Tw-oh
Threee
Foh-ur
Fee-veh
Seecks
Seven
Iight
Ni-ne
Ten

Or if I could change the spelling of things to the phonetic alphabet I'd rather do that...
{DA}

1. one
2. won
3. whun
4. wahn
5. wan
6. wohn
7. whon
8. wun
9. juahn
10. juan

Creating a base ten number system! No way! That's too complex. We should use base two.

0 - roze
1 - neo

jen
ken

I c wut u did thar.

I've never really considered renaming the numbers, the only other language I can reliably count in would be german, for which the pronunciation I don't mind at all. I'd use OPs as well, it actually had quite a nice ring to it, except slevin, I'd keep that as seven.

1. Uno
2. Dos
3. Tres
4. Cuatro
5. Cinco
6. Ceis
7. siete
8. ocho
9. nueve
10. diez

This is a silly idea, you foolish people!

I like it! Needs a little work though. What about transferring entirely to a binary system?

Une
Deux
Trois
Quatre
Cinq
Six
Sept
Huit
Neuf
Dix

1. Ka
2. Ta
3. Ke
4. Tu
5. La
6. Sa
7. Le
8. Su
9. Ru
10. Ro

Kah - Tah - Kei - Too - Lah - Sah - Lay - Soo - Roo - Roh

Ro-Tu is 14, Ke-Ro-Ru is 39, La-Ro-La is 55...

mellufluous no?

This would get complicated.

"Hey, what was your number?"

wan wahn whun wun wohn wun juahn won whun wahn

lol'd writing that.

1.gek
2.fuh.
3.smeh
4.jehd
5.stunhgdem
6.foing
7.spongut
8.phegde
9.twoyng
10.phut

inb4carlbaron :)

one-er
two
tree
fow-er
fife
six
seven
ait
niner
wun zero

copy?
mike, india, zulu, lima, echo, delta
over.
Lima Oscar Lima - Whiskey Uniform Tango

copy?
mike, india, zulu, lima, echo, delta
over.
Lima Oscar Lima - Whiskey Uniform Tango

Hehe, made me smirk.

01. 1
02. 10
03. 11
04. 100
05. 101
06. 110
07. 111
08. 1000
09. 1001
10. 1010

This wins the thread.

1. Nigger
2. Nigger
3. Nigger
4. Nigger
5. Nigger
6. Nigger
7. Nigger
8. Nigger
9. Nigger
10. Nigger

Or perhaps something based on the musical scale...

Do re mi fa so la ti do...

With correct pronunciation based on the intonation?
{DA}

Octets! Very cool.

Equations as counterpoint harmony.

Prime numbers - re, mi, so, ti.. not sure how to handle the 'nine ten' problem..

What's it called when people use numbers, equations or secuences in music to create ordered, mind blowing patterns?

I saw some videos once about a metal plate with apparently sand on it, and as different "numbers" were being played into it, the sonic vibrations of each different note and "number" made the sand take intricate geometric, eeriely ordered shapes.

Shit.
Piss.
Fuck.
Cunt.
Cocksucker.
Motherfucker.
Tits.
Fart.
Turd.
Twat.

After those first ten, it would continue as normal. 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, etc, etc.

Chladni patterns.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wmFAwqQB0g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMIvAsZvBiw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf0t4qIVWF4&feature=related

Haha, this for the win.
"I just downed a motherfucker of beer".
"Food is served at fuck'o clock"
"We fucked fuck times"
"Lucky tits win the jackpot"
"Awesome, I just got a turd point cocksucker in my final exam"

The possibilities are endless.

"Hi kid, how old are you? I'm fart years old, mister"

Chladni patterns.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wmFAwqQB0g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMIvAsZvBiw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf0t4qIVWF4&feature=related

Yeah, I could watch those for hours. Awesome.

Ten
Nine
Eight
Seven
Six
Five
Four
Three
Two
One

A number scale somehow based on music would be abslutely fucking incredible.

Our current number scale isn't perfect and will limit our development in the future probably. I think the existance of prime numbers being unpredictable and irrational numbers means it's flawed. Just like how the Roman numeral system heled back Romans... In the future a new one will probably be developed.

But yeah, I think something based on music would make everything MUCH easier to work out, our brains would probably subconsciously work out problems based on musical patterns. What 'sounds' the best in your hred would probabl be the answer to the problem.

Fuck man, I need to study cognitive psychology with maths or something, I'd love to develop such a system.

Octets! Very cool.

Equations as counterpoint harmony.

Prime numbers - re, mi, so, ti.. not sure how to handle the 'nine ten' problem..

it's not a problem if we change the number system to base 8.

A number scale somehow based on music would be abslutely fucking incredible.

The number scale is expressed in graphemical representations of distinct and audibile phonemical sounds, that is to say human speech, which could be considered music if one was so inclined to make such a claim

1. eins
2. zwei
3. drei
4. veir
5. funf
6. sechs
7. seiben
8. acht
9. neun
10. zehn

I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X







shit, thats taken

1. Shwam
2. Doo
3. Two and heif
4. Scheven
5. Schfourteen-teen
6. Shwenty one
7. Schwenty seven heif
8. 27
9. 37
10. Schfifty five

0. Five
1. Alef
2. Zehn
3. Miles Davis
4. Hurz
5. Twenty-three
6. Billy Pilgrim
7. Forty-two
8. Yodawg
9. Gimel
10. GoldenPalace.com

10. GoldenPalace.com

hahaha reminds me of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldenpalace.com_monkey

1).
2)..
3)...
4)....
5).....
6)......
7).......
8)........
9).........
10)..........

This.

You should have to say "dot (dot dot dot)" very quickly indeed to get your point across. It would make bargaining quite fun...

0 - Fellatio
1 - Fuck
2 - Shit
3 - Piss
4 - Crap
5 - Damn
6 - Asshole
7 - Cunt
8 - Bitch
9 - Irrumatio (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrumatio)
10 - Muhammad

"How old are you?"
Shitfellatiopiss.
(Lit. 2 0 3 - 20 and 3 - 23)

"How much does this cost?"
FuckfellatiofellatioassholeMuhammad.
(Lit. 1 0 0 6 9 - 100 and 69 - $169)

1. a
2. s
3. s
4. h
5. o
6. l
7. e
8. s
9. s
10. s

i dont understand why you end every sentence with a number.

1.) Keg
2.) Lester
3.) Andromeda
4.) Vagina
5.) Keg
6.) Balls
7.) Siete
8.) Ait
9.) Fuck.
10.) Beer.



Now say it aloud!

Keg, Lester, Andromeda // Vagina, Keg, Balls // Siete, Ait, fuck, Beer!

I used to have my own language with my friend when I was a kid, it was great. Our language had roots in everything from Japanese to Latin. I don't remember the numbers, so I'm going to remake them.

0- kai
1- yo
2- nu
3- me (pronounced "may")
4- shi
5- do
6- nara
7- chi
8- ha
9- ku
10- ten