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Re: number and words

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On Wed, 2 May 2012 16:13:48 -0700 (PDT), Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

>Another approach would be to expand into one language, e.g., English, then =
>use resource bundles to translate those words into other languages. I don't=
> know how effective this would be.

That's what I hoped would be true when I started writing that code.  I
thought I would need a common skeleton just with different constants
for thousand etc.

But it turns out they are crazy irregular.

Have a look at Icelandic.
https://wush.net/websvn/mindprod/filedetails.php?repname=mindprod&path=%2Fcom%2Fmindprod%2Finwords%2FIcelandic.java

or Polish.
https://wush.net/websvn/mindprod/filedetails.php?repname=mindprod&path=%2Fcom%2Fmindprod%2Finwords%2FIcelandic.java

compared with AmericanEnglish
https://wush.net/websvn/mindprod/filedetails.php?repname=mindprod&path=%2Fcom%2Fmindprod%2Finwords%2FAmericanEnglish.java

compared with the regularity of Esperanto
https://wush.net/websvn/mindprod/filedetails.php?repname=mindprod&path=%2Fcom%2Fmindprod%2Finwords%2FEsperanto.java

I have not done it yet, but I suspect Mandarin may be simpler still.

you can play with these only at
http://mindprod.com/inwords/InWords.html
typing in number to see the words in any language.
-- 
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
http://mindprod.com
Programmers love to create simplified replacements for HTML. 
They forget that the simplest language is the one you 
already know. They also forget that their simple little 
markup language will bit by bit become even more convoluted 
and complicated than HTML because of the unplanned way it grows.
.

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number and words Daniel <daniel.chmielewski@gmail.com> - 2012-05-02 13:55 -0700
  Re: number and words Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-05-02 17:01 -0400
  Re: number and words Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-05-02 14:23 -0700
    Re: number and words Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-05-02 16:13 -0700
      Re: number and words Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-05-02 19:19 -0400
        Re: number and words Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-05-02 20:05 -0700
      Re: number and words Leif Roar Moldskred <leifm@dimnakorr.com> - 2012-05-02 18:41 -0500
        Re: number and words Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-05-02 20:06 -0700
          Re: number and words Leif Roar Moldskred <leifm@dimnakorr.com> - 2012-05-03 00:06 -0500
            Re: number and words Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-05-03 09:15 -0700
              Re: number and words Leif Roar Moldskred <leifm@dimnakorr.com> - 2012-05-03 12:00 -0500
                Re: number and words Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-05-03 13:26 -0700
      Re: number and words RedGrittyBrick <RedGrittyBrick@spamweary.invalid> - 2012-05-03 10:03 +0100
        Re: number and words Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2012-05-03 06:15 -0300
        Re: number and words Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-05-03 14:08 -0700
          Re: number and words glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-05-04 05:49 +0000
            Re: number and words Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-05-04 06:46 -0700
              Re: number and words glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-05-04 19:41 +0000
      Re: number and words Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-05-03 14:14 -0700
    Re: number and words Daniel <daniel.chmielewski@gmail.com> - 2012-05-02 16:20 -0700
      Re: number and words Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-05-03 15:12 +0000
        Re: number and words Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-05-03 14:28 -0700
          Re: number and words Tom McGlynn <taqmcg@gmail.com> - 2012-05-03 15:32 -0700

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