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 by Gordon Lee
-We are lucky, we communicate in a language sometimes referred to as English. When divested of the "Strine" overtones and weeded of "Ockerisms", whrit is left is generally unintelligible to most Australians, but understandable to most English-speaking Asians. So it is possible to get away with a monolinguistic approach. However one obstacle that was almost impossible to surmount without some effort was nuMber.
+We're lucky, we communicate in a language sometimes referred to as English. When divested of the "Strine" overtones and weeded of "Ockerisms", what is left is generally unintelligible to most Australians, but understandable to most English-speaking Asians. So it is possible to get away with a monolinguistic approach. However one obstacle that was almost impossible to surmount without some effort was number.
-Every country I travelled through had a different number system.
-To transact anything involving money it was generally necessary to do so in the native language, disregarding dialect. So it became one of the first chores when crossing a border to "swot" up on their number system. Some of these were more confusing than others.
+Every country I travelled through had a different number system.  To transact anything involving money it was generally necessary to do so in the native language, disregarding dialect. So it became one of the first chores when crossing a border to "swot" up on their number system. Some of these were more confusing than others.
-Even now my mind boggles when I think of the Nepalese way of computing; ek, dooce, tin, char, parnsh, chah/oo, saht, aht, nor, aarse - one to ten. As for the numerals, they were in Sanskrit. Take a tin of worms. Spread them in a line, then read from right to left - sanskrit. In Nepalese it didn't end there. When counting objects another system was employed. One of something was "yohtah", two - "doocetah", three -
+Even now my mind boggles when I think of the Nepalese way of computing; ek, dooce, tin, char, parnsh, chah/oo, saht, aht, nor, aarse - one to ten. As for the numerals, they were in Sanskrit. Take a tin of worms. Spread them in a line, then read from right to left - sanskrit. In Nepalese it didn't end there. When counting objects another system was employed. One of something was "yohtah", two - "doocetah", three -"tinohtah". No use using this to count people, this required another set of names.
-"tinohtah". No use using this to count people, this required another set of names.
 When confronted and confounded by optical as well as aural oddities the task of communicating numerically sometimes degenerated to the use of what must have been to the bystander a very complicated series of digital exercises.
-"Thai" is tonal. If all the rest weren't enough to force you to
-the point of commital then this added horror was "the straw". -"Ke means egg but "Kr means chicken, so your breakfast egg could turn out to be neck, breast and parson's nose simply because you'd sung it the wrong way.
+"Thai" is tonal. If all the rest weren't enough to force you to the point of commital then this added horror was "the straw". "Ky" means egg but "KY" means chicken, so your breakfast egg could turn out to be neck, breast and parson's nose simply because you'd sung it the wrong way.
 The two most logical and straightforward enumerations were at either extremity of the journey - Afghanistan and Indonesia. Indonesian is made the more easy because the numerals are Arabic, the same as ours. However between these two there was plenty to baffle a poor simpleton such as I. So lend an ear if you wish to hear the ballad of a muddled mathematician.
-Confused Coin&.
-Use "say", "taegar" or "tin", For the country you're in,
+__Confused Counting__
-TO count the amount of your pay. In Nepal your quota
+Use "say", "taegar" or "tin",
+For the country you're in,
+To count the amount of your pay.
+In Nepal your quota
 May only lie "yohtah",
 Have a care and not throw it away.
-Page 16. 'THE SYD1TEY BUSHWALKER December, 1977.
 In India the "anna"
 Was quite an old manner
 To balance at end of the day;
-Sixteen ofthese made up your "Rupees" If someone you had to repay.
+Sixteen of these made up your "Rupees"
+If someone you had to repay.
 But today it's the "paisa"
-You get in your pay sirs
+You get in your pay sir!
 As you count in the now modern way.
 When adding "Afghani"
-You've obliged to use Farsi, But please, watch what you say; Use "hasht" for a "haft"
+You've obliged to use Farsi,
-And they'll think you are daft, And maybe will put you away.
+But please, watch what you say;
-Whether "empart" or flenarm"?
+Use "hasht" for a "haft"
+And they'll think you are daft,
+And maybe will put you away.
+Whether "empart" or "enarm"?
 May pose quite a problem
-In Java or Bali, but not Mandalay. Here the business you're at
+In Java or Bali, but not Mandalay.
+Here the business you're at
 May be solved by a "chat",
 When computing at work or at play.
-If you laugh or you grin At the trouble we're in,
-Be warned and don't got blase; If the:"Iand of the gin" Lets the Japanese in, Well, the "dee ye ken", It'll all be in "yen",
+If you laugh or you grin
+At the trouble we're in,
+Be warned and don't got blase;
+If the "land of the gin"
+Lets the Japanese in,
+Well, the "dee ye ken", It'll all be in "yen",
 And your grin may be turned the other way.
+Q.E.D.
 For those ignorant peasants illiterate in Farsi, Urdu, Bahasa Indonesia, Nepali and Burmese I append the following glossary:-
-Say, teega, tin: 3 in Farsi, Indonesian and Nepali/Hindi. Ydhtahs Nepali, counting objects.
+Say, teega, tin: 3 in Farsi, Indonesian and Nepali/Hindi.
+Yohtahs: Nepali, counting objects.
 Anna: Out of date coin in India.
-paisa =I Rupee or Afghani.
+paisa = 1 Rupee or Afghani.
-Afghani: Unit of currency ih Afghanistan.
+Afghani: Unit of currency in Afghanistan.
-Hasht, hafts Farsi 7 and 8.
+Hasht, haft: Farsi 7 and 8.
 Empart and enarm: 4 and 6 in Indonesian.
-Chat or more properly Kyats Unit of currency in Burma. "Land of the gin": Australia.
+Chat or more properly Kyat: Unit of currency in Burma.
+"Land of the gin": Australia.