Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 08:44:17 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: French, Flemish and English (was: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c) Message-ID: <20020522064417.GA893@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <20020522112854.A26107@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20020519100324.GK44562@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <20020519134348.I67779@blossom.cjclark.org> <p05111722b90de01cc974@[10.9.8.215]> <20020520195703.A79046@dragon.nuxi.com> <p05111701b90fb2744154@[10.9.8.215]> <20020521103710.C71209@lpt.ens.fr> <p05111703b90fc048bd8f@[10.0.1.4]> <20020521133026.L71209@lpt.ens.fr> <p05111705b90fe1afee46@[10.0.1.4]> <20020522112854.A26107@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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Greg 'groggy' Lehey said on May 22, 2002 at 11:28:54: > > > French-speaking people are so damn snooty sometimes. > > Occasionally you will run into one that doesn't speak English but > > will still be friendly and as helpful as possible, but if you don't > > speak French it seems that most often you will run into people who > > take a "But you must speak French in order to exist!" type attitude. > > Again, this is possibly more the case in Bruxelles than in France. > The worst thing you can do is speak Flemish to them. On the other hand, in Antwerp practically nobody speaks French. Seems funny to me that a nation so tiny can be so sharply divided in language... The Belgians have at least one major improvement in the French language to their credit: they have sensible words for numbers above 69. In France, 70 is sixty-ten (soixante-dix), 71 is sixty-eleven, 80 is four-twenties, 90 is four-twenties-ten, 99 is four-twenties-ten-nine. Surely this situation is something the Academie Française should have been concerned about long ago, but no -- the French find the Belgian number system (70=septante, etc) hilarious. - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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