RE: Linguistic precedence

From: [email protected]
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. kes�kuuta

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 portugu�s go with
Capitalized weekdays and months (but with lowercase language names).

-- 
Jarkko Hietaniemi <[email protected]>



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