<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="">Dear Amanda,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’n not entirely sure if this is what you are looking for, but colloquial German has <i class="">drölf, </i><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">a blend of </span><i class="">drei</i> ’three’ and <i class="">zwölf</i> ’twelve’.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It commonly means something like ‚any number between three and twelve‘ but can also be used in the sense of ‚an unknown or unspecified large quantity‘. Rather than emotive, it’s jocular, though. Wiktionary lists it as 'fiktive ganze Zahl‘ [fictive whole number] (<a href="https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/drölf" class="">https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/dr%C3%B6lf</a>).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best,</div><div class="">Bastian</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Am 22.02.2022 um 15:27 schrieb Amanda Kann <<a href="mailto:amanda.kann@su.se" class="">amanda.kann@su.se</a>>:</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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