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| From | Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: number and words |
| Date | 2012-05-02 20:05 -0700 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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On Wed, 02 May 2012 19:19:34 -0400, Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
wrote:
>On 5/2/2012 7:13 PM, Lew wrote:
[snip]
>> 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.
>
>It will not work.
... and with a vengeance!
>The order of the part vary between languages and some languages
>has multiple words for the same depending on what it is counting
>(gender).
... or how many one is counting. Some languages have special
forms for two of something.
More complexity:
French has some numbers that are in scores. 74 is
"soixante-quatorze" (60 14).
In Chinese, 1) the digits are grouped in fours -- one hundred
thousand is literally "ten ten-thousand" -- and 2) in some cases, one
has to insert the word for zero in mid-number.
I understand that some languages reverse the order of some of
number words.
[snip]
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
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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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