From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 22 1:52:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9094937B40B; Wed, 22 May 2002 01:52:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id g4M8qep08049 ; Wed, 22 May 2002 10:52:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id KAA48055 ; Wed, 22 May 2002 10:52:40 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 10:52:40 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Brad Knowles Cc: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: French, Flemish and English (was: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c) Message-ID: <20020522105240.B46377@lpt.ens.fr> References: <20020520195703.A79046@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020521103710.C71209@lpt.ens.fr> <20020521133026.L71209@lpt.ens.fr> <20020522112854.A26107@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020522064417.GA893@lpt.ens.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from brad.knowles@skynet.be on Wed, May 22, 2002 at 09:40:20AM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brad Knowles said on May 22, 2002 at 09:40:20: > At 8:44 AM +0200 2002/05/22, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > Whereas in Belgium, we have septante, quatre-vingts, and nonante. > > They fixed seventy and ninety, but for whatever bizarre reason, > they left eighty alone. The version I heard (from some French chap) was that the Belgians say "huitante" and the Swiss say "octante", or perhaps the other way around. But I bow to your knowledge :) - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message