Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 19:01:56 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: French, Flemish and English (was: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c) Message-ID: <20020522190156.N45715@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20020522112532.C47352@lpt.ens.fr> References: <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]> <20020522105240.B46377@lpt.ens.fr> <20020522183052.J45715@wantadilla.lemis.com> <p0511172ab9111215358b@[10.0.1.4]> <20020522112532.C47352@lpt.ens.fr>
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On Wednesday, 22 May 2002 at 11:25:32 +0200, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > 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. Almost certainly, I would think. It's interesting to note that it came into English after the Norman conquest. 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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