Re: "The" and possessives

On Mon, 28 May 2001, Nik Taylor wrote:

> Henrik Theiling wrote:
> > I never understood why Chinese people still don't put the dots every
> > *four* digits in Arabic numbers.
>
> Because they got those numerals from the West.  So, despite the
> confusion I'm sure it must cause for learners, they group digits in
> threes.  I would think that it must make it difficult to read large
> numbers.
Dunno about the Chinese, but my mom and I both have to sit there and
recount Arabic numbers into groups of four in order to "translate" them
into Korean.  Darn commas.  :-p

YHL