GRICE E BOELLA

  1954. 999 (i.e. Novecento novantanove) Cod. Carlo Allioni & Ernesto Boella (Dulichenko’s Boellu is a misspelling). Turin, Italy. A code for friendly international correspondence. Digital pasigraphy is indicated in DIAL under the number 901.121. In the same edition, Dulichenko mentions the linguistic project Arioni-Boera, number 854.74, referring to Fuishiki Okamoto (Rikichi, or Fuishiki, Okamoto, 1885–1963). Perhaps we are dealing with the same project. Indeed, in the introduction to his book, Okamoto lists several works that influenced the Babm9 language, including Arioni-Boera. Taking into account that Oka moto’s native language is Japanese, it can be assumed that the Japanese spelling was the source of the confusion. The thing is that there is no “l” sound in the Japanese language. Instead, they pronounce “r” (voiced alveolar flap [ɾ]). The surnames Allioni and Boella could easily have been transformed into Ario ni-Boera in some Japanese source. In order to distinguish cardinal numerals from other numbers corresponding to code words, they are written in parentheses: (1), (2), (3), etc. References: [2], [17], [45], [53].