Procrastinet

Maxian Numbers

filed under: Dadditudes

Max has a long history of naming/renaming things, and lists. Here's his original take on the alphabet, here's his surreally-named bouncy ball collection, and here are the 20 tracks of an album he invented. Tonight, however, I think he may have outdone himself.

In the bath he plays with big foam letters and numbers, which he uses to make up elaborate stories mostly having to do with addresses and Fall Out Boy ("Joe lives at... 547 EIGHTH Street...") - but tonight he picked up the U, the D and the L and shouted, apropos of nothign, "UDL means FIVE!"

"In what?" I asked.

"In German," says Max. He then started inventing other numbers, which I had Mommy write down for posterity. Imagine all of these pronounced with an accent that's somewhere between Hebrew, Japanese and Martian:

One = ashee
Two = sada
Three = shok
Four = zoshoko
Five = UDL
Six = zastanoko
Seven = ashtutu
Eight = bastard
Nine = lasoto
Ten = zojo
Eleven = zaktu
Twelve = azsti
Thirteen = zastutu
Fourteen = sadazaza
Fifteen = Sarah
Sixteen = ashzoto
Seventeen = ashtuta
Eighteen = zvzvthu
Nineteen = zvzvzvu
Twenty = "there is no twenty."

Posted by rjt at July 27, 2007 10:03 PM