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Re: count words

From:Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...>
Date:Saturday, August 7, 1999, 18:21
On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Fabian wrote:

> 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. >
Quite so - is there ever anything simple in language?
> 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.
I wouldn't know ;-). Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt