Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 18:20:58 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>, 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> In-Reply-To: <p05111723b910fac1be02@[10.0.1.4]> References: <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> <20020522064417.GA893@lpt.ens.fr> <p05111723b910fac1be02@[10.0.1.4]>
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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
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