From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 22 2:17:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from durendal.skynet.be (durendal.skynet.be [195.238.3.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B492337B406; Wed, 22 May 2002 02:17:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.0.1.4] (ip-27.shub-internet.org [194.78.144.27] (may be forged)) by durendal.skynet.be (8.11.6/8.11.6/Skynet-OUT-2.19) with ESMTP id g4M9GwU00995; Wed, 22 May 2002 11:16:58 +0200 (MET DST) (envelope-from ) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20020522183052.J45715@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> <20020522105240.B46377@lpt.ens.fr> <20020522183052.J45715@wantadilla.lemis.com> X-Grok: +++ath X-WebTV-Stationery: Standard; BGColor=black; TextColor=black Reply-By: Wed, 1 Jan 1984 12:34:56 +0100 X-Message-Flag: Your copy of Outlook will expire in 3 days. Please contact Microsoft about purchasing a new license. Remember: software piracy is a felony! Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 11:16:58 +0200 To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" , Rahul Siddharthan From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: French, Flemish and English (was: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c) Cc: Brad Knowles , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" 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 At 6:30 PM +0930 2002/05/22, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > So, shall we move on to German numbers? Nah. Dutch numbers are much more fun. Where we would say "Ninety-five", they say the equivalent of "Five-and-Ninety". Fine for me, because I'm going to have to learn the language anyway, and I am sensitive to changes like this. But when someone tells you that they weigh forty-nine kilos and that they are overweight, that takes a little bit of thinking to work out. -- Brad Knowles, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message