Re: Numbers in Qthen|gai (and in Tyl Sjok) [long]
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 9, 2005, 22:22 |
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On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 07:46:14PM +0000, Ray Brown wrote:
> We also of course read figures like 1900 as nineteen hundred; 1524 as
> fifteen hundred (and) twenty four. We do not seem to do that with numbers
> greater than 1999. for example 2005 is two thousand (and) five.
I think that is the proximity to 2000, not the fact that it's greater
than 1999. Saying "twenty-oh-five" feels awkward, but I'm sure that 5 years
from now will be "twenty-ten". Remember Pendleton Brown and Bearface?
"In the year twenty-five twenty-five."
-Marcos
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