Re: USAGE: irregular plurals (was: minimal pair ...)
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, October 27, 2002, 14:02 |
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At 11:07 27.10.2002 +0000, Joe wrote:
>Quite. Most computers can quite happily count to
>111111111111111111111111111111111 (in binary, that is).
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>Thats 4,294,967,294, if you don't speak binary.
There are 10 kinds of people: those who understand binary notation and
those who don't.
/ B.Philip Jonsson B^)>
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