RE: Linguistic precedence

From: jarkko.hietaniemi@nokia.com
Date: Fri Jun 16 2000 - 13:51:54 EDT


> It's worse than that, the month name must be inflected...but
> luckily the inflection is really simple, just a prefix: "16. kesäkuuta

s/prefix/suffix/; # Furiously sipping his coffee.

> 2000", or in numbers, "16.6.2000". Note the ".", none of that st/nd/rd/th
mess.

> > And I do not know of any person whose mothertongue is Latin.

Neither do I, but hey, let's not discriminate against the Vatican.

After some further study it seems that also the português go with
Capitalized weekdays and months (but with lowercase language names).

-- 
Jarkko Hietaniemi <jarkko.hietaniemi@nokia.com>



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