Google| Subject | Re: Even *MORE* Scandinavian linguistics; was: Republicanism still an offence in England? |
| From | Henriette Frans |
| Date | 2002-05-17 19:09 (2002-05-17 19:09) |
| Message-ID | <3CE53920.516B306D@chello.nl> |
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| Newsgroups | alt.fan.tolkien |
| Follows | chris cunningham |
| Followups | Pradera (4m) > Henriette Frans Troels Forchhammer (2d, 22h & 9m) > Henriette Frans |
chris cunningham wrote:
chris cunninghamI love this "Even *MORE* Scandinavian linguistics " thread in which I have seen pass, apart from all the Scandinavian languages: English, Dutch, French and Italian, Celtic, Polish, Russian, and now even Arabic!
<snip> side note: arabic seems to be the same, except that, for "twenty 'til five", they'll say "khamsa illa thulth": five except a third, for 4:40.
oh, the arabs also put the ones before the tens, btw, as in five and twenty for 25, or one hundred, five and twenty, for 125Strange, that the Dutch and the Germans have that in common with the Arabs, whereas none of the other languages we discussed have that illogical habit.
man, i love geeking on linguistics: halvtredssindstyve: half (less than) three times twenty, hehe.Great! A lot of linguistics geeks here (no idea what "geeks" means, but my intuition says it is totally appropriate here)
Henriette
2002-03-30-
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