From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 22 1:51:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C6ED37B40A for ; Wed, 22 May 2002 01:51:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id D6B2C8163C; Wed, 22 May 2002 18:20:58 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 18:20:58 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Brad Knowles Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: French, Flemish and English (was: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c) Message-ID: <20020522182058.H45715@wantadilla.lemis.com> 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 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 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 On Wednesday, 22 May 2002 at 9:40:20 +0200, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 8:44 AM +0200 2002/05/22, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > >> 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... > > True enough. > >> 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. > > Whereas in Belgium, we have septante, quatre-vingts, and nonante. > > They fixed seventy and ninety, but for whatever bizarre reason, > they left eighty alone. Right, I remember something like that. In Switzerland they have octante as well. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message