Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 11:16:58 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org>, 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: <p0511172ab9111215358b@[10.0.1.4]> In-Reply-To: <20020522183052.J45715@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20020520195703.A79046@dragon.nuxi.com> <p05111701b90fb2744154@[10.9.8.215]> <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>
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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".
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.
--
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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