From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 22 2:25:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8189F37B40C; Wed, 22 May 2002 02:25:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id g4M9PWp14772 ; Wed, 22 May 2002 11:25:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id LAA50293 ; Wed, 22 May 2002 11:25:32 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 11:25:32 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Brad Knowles Cc: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: French, Flemish and English (was: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c) Message-ID: <20020522112532.C47352@lpt.ens.fr> References: <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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from brad.knowles@skynet.be on Wed, May 22, 2002 at 11:16:58AM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 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 Brad Knowles said on May 22, 2002 at 11:16:58: > 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". Somewhat like in older English. It just occurred to me, by the way, that "quatre-vingts" could be translated as "fourscore" which dates to the 13th century. Maybe there's a connection there. > tells you that they weigh forty-nine kilos and that they are > overweight, that takes a little bit of thinking to work out. Depends on their height; for a woman less than 150 cm tall (quite unusual in the Netherlands), perhaps 49 kg seems overweight. R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message