Re: conplaneteering
| From: | Keith Gaughan <kmgaughan@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, February 15, 2005, 18:18 |
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Mark J. Reed wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 06:02:32PM +0100, Carsten Becker wrote:
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>>Why can't you Anglophones not simply change to comma like
>>the rest of the world?
>>(This was a rethorical question.)
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> Is it really an Anglophone thing? I thought the decimal comma and
> thousands-period were in use in the UK, too.
Lord, no! Strictly speaking, it's a raised dot that's used in the
anglophone world, but with the rise of typewriters and, later,
computer, that became a full-stop.
I wish people'd use the raised dot more.
K.
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