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• ENGLISH: ow, ouch, oops, gosh, golly, whoops, wow, bow-wow, arf,
yes, no, OK, hello, hi
• DANISH: av, halløjsa, hovsa, uf, vov vov, mjav, rap rap, ja, nej, jo, dav,
hej
In the VISL system, interjections are treated functionally as adverbials, so the
colon notation for the interjection is A:intj.
10.3. The numeral (VISL abbreviation: num, VISL color: light green)
There are two basic types of numerals (or number): CARDINAL (one, two,
three) and ORDINAL (first, second, third). The first group contains numbers
which indicate “how many”, while the second group contains numbers which
indicate “order” in a series:
• cardinal numbers
o
o
ENGLISH: zero, one, two, three, fifty, sixty-three, one thousand
DANISH: nul, en, to, tre, halvtreds, to og fyrre, hundrede
• ordinal numbers
o
o
ENGLISH: first, second, third, fourth, fifth, tenth, fiftieth,
billionth, 1 st , 2 nd , 3 rd , 4 th
DANISH: første, anden/andet, tredje, fjerde, femte, sjette, syvende
• other types of numbers
-12, 1001, VIII, IX, 50 %, 2004, 2 5 , 10 -9
10,451.52 (English punctuation), 10,451,52 (Danish punctuation)
Basic characteristics: Numerals of all types are, for the most part, easily
recognized. An interesting philosophical question to consider is the following:
How large is the class of numerals? One might be tempted at first to argue that
the class is unlimited in size, since there is no largest number in either the
cardinal or the ordinal series. This is true for both English and Danish. To any
number which one might claim is the largest, a larger number can be
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John M. Dienhart