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you should see finnish inflections (Score:2)
Finnish numbers are evil as they are compound and every word inside the whole compound gets inflected, e.g. the number '28' in nominative, genitive and partative cases
It's wacky! :)
Re:you should see finnish inflections (Score:1)
You want evil, look at numbers in Russian (and to a certain extent the other Slavic languages), which I mention in my TPJ13 Maketext Article [cpan.org] (soon to appear in the Best of TPJ books from O'Reilly). They project case onto the nouns they quantify, in horrible ways that depend on the number. I don't remember the details (and I never could figure out all the rules) but it's like: 1-3 (and compounds thereof) project, say, nominative, but 4 and 7 force genitive plural, and it gets crazier from there.
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