Arabic-L:LING:Why 60?

[Dilworth Parkinson]

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1) Subject: Why 60?

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Date: 08 Jul 2010
From: "Habeeb, Anan" <ahabeeb at indiana.edu>
Subject: Why 60?

Many if not all the exaples that you mentioned are taken from the 
Egyptian dialect, while in other dialects people use other intestifiers 
like 20, 800, 70, 400 and others. I still agree that 60 is one of the 
most popular among all intistifiers. The explanation - as I see it - is 
phonetic; since sit-teeeen differs from 80 (tamaneeen), 90 (tis3eeeen) 
and other numbers because of the stress on the "T" and the stress or 
boubling the letter or as we know it in Arabic as al-Shdda is one way 
different Arabic dialects use to intistify or to exaggerate things.
I hope that helps,
Best,
Anan Habeeb
PhD IUB --- Earlham College

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