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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>
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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
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