tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1850157855681975587.post8262618315746585028..comments2015-05-24T10:58:57.529-06:00Comments on Thinking Sticks: Playing with Ideas: Score! and counting sheep in prehistoric languagesSandra Doddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11853107998229753762noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1850157855681975587.post-9571000569472042732008-06-21T18:42:00.000-06:002008-06-21T18:42:00.000-06:00Very interesting post. I am studying Austronesian ...Very interesting post. I am studying Austronesian (Indonesian, Polynesian, etc) numbers; see: <BR/>http://austronesiancounting.wordpress.com/<BR/>and looking into other older number systems as well, which is how I came across your blog.<BR/><BR/>I'm absolutely sure you're right about 'counting sheep' to send children to sleep, but play with this idea:<BR/><BR/>Many people now think that these words were brought to England by Welsh sheep drovers in the Middle Ages. They drove their flocks over the open downlands, if possible, but sometimes along main roads when there wasn't any open country. It's a lonely job, shepherding, and perhaps suggests why so many young mothers learned those numbersRichard Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11726482358889849398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1850157855681975587.post-322918981935810532008-05-21T09:09:00.000-06:002008-05-21T09:09:00.000-06:00I don't have a source but it would be easy enough ...I don't have a source but it would be easy enough to search. This came on the Page a Day calendar:<BR/><BR/>MONEY SLANG<BR/>Some costermonger’s money-related backslang current during the 19th century:<BR/><BR/>FLATCH......................half-penny<BR/>YENEP............................penny<BR/>OWT-YENEPS...................twopence<BR/>ERTH-YENEPS................threepence<BR/>ROUF-YENEPS.................fourpence<BR/>EVIF OR EVID-YENEPS..........fivepence<BR/>EXIS-YENEPS....................sixpence<BR/>NEVIS-YENEPS................sevenpence<BR/>TEAICH or THEG-YENEPS.....eightpence<BR/>ENIN-YENEPS.................ninepence<BR/>NET-YENEPS...................tenpence<BR/>NEVELÉ-YENEPS.............elevenpence<BR/>EVLÉNET-YENEPS...........twelvepence<BR/>GEN OR GENERALISE.........one shilling<BR/>YENEP-FLATCH...........three half pence<BR/>OWT-YENEP-FLATCH...................twopence halfpenny<BR/>OWT-GENS..................two shillings<BR/>ERTH-GENS................three shillings<BR/>FLATCH-YENORK............half a crown<BR/>YENORK..........................crown<BR/>DUNOP..........................poundSandra Doddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11853107998229753762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1850157855681975587.post-41779508510435414042008-02-18T09:47:00.000-07:002008-02-18T09:47:00.000-07:00http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGRz4jiRRLkThat's c...<A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGRz4jiRRLk" REL="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGRz4jiRRLk</A><BR/><BR/>That's cool, because it involves both/separately a speech (never made) that starts (several times and is interrupted) "Four score..." and counting in "the Indian tongue."Sandra Doddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11853107998229753762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1850157855681975587.post-47590031719965603772008-02-18T08:04:00.000-07:002008-02-18T08:04:00.000-07:00Hey! This reminded me of "The Music Man"Here's a ...Hey! This reminded me of "The Music Man"<BR/><BR/>Here's a YouTube clip of that scene (referenced part is about 3 minutes in...) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGRz4jiRRLkSallyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02547727066273917960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1850157855681975587.post-52858259115999560762008-02-16T08:02:00.000-07:002008-02-16T08:02:00.000-07:00I was reading a very cool book about games yesterd...I was reading a very cool book about games yesterday, and the author said that those bars of lines that are stuck at the bottom of a letter or postcard are akin to ancient scoring systems. She mentioned the Ishango Bone from Congo. It was a bone discovered in the 50s, covered with notches. Estimated to be between twenty to twenty-thousand years old, it may have been a type of lunar calendar.<BR/><BR/>"Math Games and Activities from Around the World" by Claudia ZaslavskyChristahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17562469219836141731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1850157855681975587.post-59617236799015789132008-02-05T17:23:00.000-07:002008-02-05T17:23:00.000-07:00I don't have anything to add to the subject, I jus...I don't have anything to add to the subject, I just wanted to say, "This is SO cool!" <BR/><BR/>My younger dd couldn't sleep one night so I read them off to her to see if it helped. It made *me* sleepy! lolPaigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12383446718331561630noreply@blogger.com