<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Dear Amanda, </span><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Colloquial Russian has something similar, namely 100500 <i class="">stopjatsot, stopicot </i><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">(colloq.)</span><i class=""> </i>‘one hundred five hundred’ pro ‘one hundred thousand five hundred’. 100500 is usually used in mocking contexts to express large amounts. Here’s a random example from the internet [probably conveying the speaker’s annoyance]:</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><i style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Kak obyčno nado sdelat’ <b class="">stopjatsot</b> fotok, čtoby polučilas’ odna!</i></div><div class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 14px;" class="">how usually need make.inf hundred.five.hundred photo.gen.pl in.order succeed.prs.3sg one</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">‘As usual, one has to make 100500 photos to get a good one!’</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Best, </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Denys </span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 22. Feb 2022, at 16:27, Amanda Kann <<a href="mailto:amanda.kann@su.se" class="">amanda.kann@su.se</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Dear typologists,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">(Apologies to those who have already seen this query through LinguistList!)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: white;" class="">I'm looking for corresponding expressions (in any language) to the approximative numeral phrases in the examples below – conventionalized numeral expressions which typically express larger, approximate numeric quantities and encode some kind of emotive function.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><br class=""><span style="background-color: white;" class="">I'm interested in the composition and value of these numerals, as well as their emphatic and emotive functions – if there are other expressions in the numeral domain in your language(s) that carry a similar illocutionary force, I would love to hear about them as well!</span><br class=""><br class=""></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: white;" class="">Swedish [swe]: (from Bloggmix 2013, accessed through </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><a href="http://spraakbanken.gu.se/korp" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(33, 118, 245); background-color: white; text-decoration: none;" class="">http://spraakbanken.gu.se/korp</span></a><span style="background-color: white;" class="">)</span><span style="" class=""><br class=""><span style="background-color: white;" class="">Det finns nämligen femtioelva sorters myror.</span><br class=""></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: white;" class="">'There are actually many types of ants' (lit. 'There are actually fifty-eleven types of ants')</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><span style="background-color: white;" class="">French [fra]: (Lavric 2010,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><a href="https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004253247_008" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(33, 118, 245); background-color: white; text-decoration: none;" class="">https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004253247_008</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: white;" class="">)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><br class=""><span style="background-color: white;" class="">Il n’y a pas trente-six façons de voir la chose.</span><br class=""><span style="background-color: white;" class="">'There aren't very many ways of seeing the thing' (lit. 'There aren't thirty-six ways of seeing the thing')</span><br class=""><br class=""><span style="background-color: white;" class="">Danish [dan]: (from OpenSubtitles2018, accessed through </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><a href="http://opus.nlpl.eu/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(33, 118, 245); background-color: white; text-decoration: none;" class="">http://opus.nlpl.eu</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: white;" class="">)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><br class=""><span style="background-color: white;" class="">Han fortalte mig 117 gange, at han ikke gjorde hende noget.</span><br class=""><span style="background-color: white;" class="">'He told me a thousand times that he didn't do anything to her' (lit. 'He told me 117 times that he didn't do anything to her')</span><br class=""><br class=""><span style="background-color: white;" class="">English [eng]: (from OpenSubtitles2018, accessed through </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><a href="http://opus.nlpl.eu/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(33, 118, 245); background-color: white; text-decoration: none;" class="">http://opus.nlpl.eu</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: white;" class="">)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><br class=""><span style="background-color: white;" class="">For the umpteenth time, we are not getting a dog.</span><br class=""><br class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Thank you very much in advance for any tips, examples or comments!<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Best regards,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Amanda Kann<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 36, 72);" class="">____________________________________</span></b><span style="" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 36, 72);" class="">Amanda Kann</span></b><span style="" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(28, 49, 74);" class="">Institutionen för </span><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;" class="">lingvistik</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(28, 49, 74);" class=""> | <i class="">Department of </i></span><i class=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;" class="">Linguistics</span></i><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(28, 49, 74);" class=""> </span><span style="" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(28, 49, 74);" class="">Stockholms universitet | <i class="">Stockholm University</i></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(28, 49, 74);" class=""><br class="">106 91 Stockholm </span><span lang="EN-US" style="" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 36, 72);" class=""><br class=""></span><u class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(149, 79, 114);" class=""><a href="mailto:amanda.kann@su.se" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">amanda.kann@su.se</a></span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 36, 72);" class=""><br class=""></span><span style="" class=""><a href="http://www.ling.su.se/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(149, 79, 114);" class="">www.ling.su.se</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="" class=""><a href="https://www.su.se/om-webbplats-cookies/personuppgifter" target="_blank" title="https://www.su.se/om-webbplats-cookies/personuppgifter
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