[geeks] Anybody can borrow me $10k? hehe....
David Cantrell
david at cantrell.org.uk
Thu Nov 21 14:38:54 CST 2002
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 01:05:15PM -0500, Thomas Gallaway wrote:
> David Cantrell wrote:
> > It could be a direct translation from French or Italian, probably other
> > Romance languages, I disremember whether it would be from any of the
> > other Germanic tongues.
> Errrr... I'm german...
I know. But I don't remember enough German to say whether you were just
translating from German or not.
> My writing sucks but my talking is better I belive...
> Well then again sometimes I say "twothousand sixhundred" instead of
> "twentysixhundred" ...
Both are correct. Two thousand six hundred is more correct IMO.
--
David Cantrell | Degenerate | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david
I often reflect that if "privileges" had been called "responsibilities"
or "duties", I would have saved thousands of hours explaining to people
why they were only gonna get them over my dead body.
-- Lee K. Gleason in comp.org.decus
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