Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 11:25:32 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> To: 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: <20020522112532.C47352@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <p0511172ab9111215358b@[10.0.1.4]>; from brad.knowles@skynet.be on Wed, May 22, 2002 at 11:16:58AM %2B0200 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]>
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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
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