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Re: ngettext() not enough?
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: ngettext() not enough? |
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Fri, 15 Jul 2005 22:30:50 +0200 |
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"John.Cowan" <address@hidden> writes:
> Andreas Schwab scripsit:
>
>> IMHO (I'm not a native speaker) "1.0 degrees" is correct if you pronounce
>> it like "one point zero degrees", just like you would say "zero degrees",
>> not "zero degree".
>
> That's seductive but problematic: by the same token, we would say "zero point
> one degree".
In German we avoid the whole issue by always writing the units in singular
in such a context. :-)
Andreas.
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- Re: ngettext() not enough?, Bruno Haible, 2005/07/15
- Re: ngettext() not enough?, John.Cowan, 2005/07/15
- Re: ngettext() not enough?, Andreas Schwab, 2005/07/15
- Re: ngettext() not enough?, John.Cowan, 2005/07/15
- Re: ngettext() not enough?,
Andreas Schwab <=
- Re: ngettext() not enough?, Bob Proulx, 2005/07/16
- Re: ngettext() not enough?, John.Cowan, 2005/07/17
- Re: ngettext() not enough?, Chuck Swiger, 2005/07/17
- Re: ngettext() not enough?, Paul Eggert, 2005/07/15
Re: ngettext() not enough?, Paul Pogonyshev, 2005/07/15