P*rl in Latin, whither Python?

[Alex Martelli]

"Steve Lamb" <grey at despair.rpglink.com> wrote in message
news:slrn90uh23.td0.grey at teleute.rpglink.com...
    [snip]
>     Not too sure about that.  I can't remember how to count past 12 in
German
> from my HS days but that is because, like English, it has odd ways to say
> things beyond 10.  I suspect the same for Italian.

Somewhat -- there are slight historically-explained phonetical
and graphical shifts between the unit-numbers:
    uno, due, tre, quattro, cinque, sei, sette, otto, nove
'ten'==dieci, and then:
    undici, dodici, tredici, quattordici, quindici, sedici
then a switch to have the 'dici' at the front:
    diciassette, diciotto, diciannove

The 'dieci' becomes 'dici' (or 'dicia' in two cases), and
the units also shift ('undici' and not 'unodici', 'dodici'
and not 'duedici', 'quattordici' and not 'quattrodici', &c).

Natural, organic growth doesn't tend to produce as much
regularity as carefully-planned design!-)


Alex