Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 12:13:34 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>, Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: French, Flemish and English (was: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c) Message-ID: <p0511172bb9111f986060@[10.0.1.4]> In-Reply-To: <20020522112532.C47352@lpt.ens.fr> References: <20020521103710.C71209@lpt.ens.fr> <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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At 11:25 AM +0200 2002/05/22, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> 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.
Sounds like good reasoning. Of course, we dumped things like
"four score" many years ago.
> Depends on their height; for a woman less than 150 cm tall (quite
> unusual in the Netherlands), perhaps 49 kg seems overweight.
She's not that short. And she's not 49kg.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
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