Google| Subject | Re: Republicanism still an offence in England? (wasRe: Queen mother |
| From | ?jevind L?ng |
| Date | 2002-05-15 18:06 (2002-05-15 18:06) |
| Message-ID | <HIvE8.4731$iB4.13753@nntpserver.swip.net> |
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| Newsgroups | alt.fan.tolkien |
| Follows | Henriette Frans |
| Followups | Raven (4h & 12m) Henriette Frans (5h & 8m) |
Henriette Frans kirjoitti viestiss?:
[snip]
Henriette Franswhat
What defenitely is more logic in a lot of other languages than Dutch, is
they do with numbers. You say e.g.: thirty-five (French: trente-cinq;Italian:
trenta-cinque)whereas the Dutch and the Germans (and presumably the Scandinavians) say(translated literally) five and thirty. 2500= five andtwenty
hundred. This custom sometimes leads to tiresome situations (e.g. when you write down a list of numbers someone reads to you).The Danes have a counting system which is as convoluted as that of the French; I will not try to describe it. But the Norwegians and the Swedes have the same system as the English-speakers. In Swedish "twenty" is "tjugo", "twenty-five" is "tjugofem", "thirty" is "trettio", "thirty-six" is "trettiosex", and so on.
?jevind
2002-03-30-
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