Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 19:00:30 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>, 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> In-Reply-To: <p0511172ab9111215358b@[10.0.1.4]> 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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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
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