From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 22 2:30:36 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 6832937B406 for ; Wed, 22 May 2002 02:30:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 618E7816B7; Wed, 22 May 2002 19:00:30 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 19:00:30 +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: <20020522190030.M45715@wantadilla.lemis.com> 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 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 11:16:58 +0200, Brad Knowles wrote: > 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". So do the Germans. Dutch *is* German, remember? > 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. Ah, you mean four and ninety? Yes, I'm used to that, though I still occasionally trip over the sequence. 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