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From: grass@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: Hor.Hacking Finnish/Estonian/Hungar
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Date: Fri, 15-Nov-85 09:15:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 15 09:15:00 1985
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>A Finnish linguist of my acquaintance has hypothesized (partly
>in jest) that all languages have cases in numbers that are powers
>of two, so that if you were going to have more than 8, you had to have
>16.  .....
>	-Elizabeth D. Zwicky

There are lots of counter examples... For starters: Russian has 6 cases,
Czech has 7 (they have a vocative).

	- Judy Grass,  University of Illinois - Urbana
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