Vendergood Language
Sidis created a constructed language called Vendergood in his second book, entitled Book of Vendergood, which he wrote at the age of eight. The language was mostly based on Latin and Greek, but also drew on German and French and other Romance languages. It distinguished between eight different moods: indicative, potential, imperative absolute, subjunctive, imperative, infinitive, optative, and Sidis's own strongeable. Vendergood employed a base-12 system of numbers, because, as Sidis explained, "The unit in selling things is 12 of those things and 12 is the smallest number that has four factors!"
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