Re: count words
| From: | Fabian <rhialto@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, August 7, 1999, 8:27 |
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Boudewijn Rempt hu kiteb
>Chinese classifiers generally have a more or less transparent
>etymological meaning - I would guess that other sinified SEA languages
>and Japanese have borrowed the Chinese measurewords, and that in
>those languages the etymology isn't transparent anymore.
The loan words aren't quite that simple. For example, the Japanese
counter used for books is the Chinese word for books.
btw, is there a way to force msoe5 to ident quoted text with '>'? It
seems to want to insert a 'previous message header' and no indenting.
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Fabian
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