Return-Path: Delivered-To: shoulson-kli@meson.org Received: (qmail 3526 invoked from network); 13 May 2000 13:45:24 -0000 Received: from zash.lupine.org (205.186.156.18) by pi.meson.org with SMTP; 13 May 2000 13:45:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 17953 invoked by uid 40001); 13 May 2000 13:45:50 -0000 Delivered-To: kli-mark@kli.org Received: (qmail 17950 invoked from network); 13 May 2000 13:45:50 -0000 Received: from hj.egroups.com (208.50.144.90) by zash.lupine.org with SMTP; 13 May 2000 13:45:50 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-44114-2720-mark=kli.org@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.10.38] by hj.egroups.com with NNFMP; 13 May 2000 13:45:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 13377 invoked from network); 13 May 2000 13:45:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 13 May 2000 13:45:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO argo.bas.bg) (195.96.224.7) by mta1 with SMTP; 13 May 2000 13:45:42 -0000 Received: from banmatpc.math.bas.bg (root@banmatpc.math.bas.bg [195.96.243.2]) by argo.bas.bg (8.10.1/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-6) with ESMTP id e4DDjYn19265 for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 16:45:36 +0300 Received: from iad.math.bas.bg (iad.math.bas.bg [195.96.243.88]) by banmatpc.math.bas.bg (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA07376 for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 16:45:32 +0300 Message-ID: <391D5CA6.103A@math.bas.bg> Organization: Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I; 16bit) To: The Lojban List References: <4.2.2.20000512183902.00a6d4d0@127.0.0.1> From: Ivan A Derzhanski MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list lojban@egroups.com; contact lojban-owner@egroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list lojban@egroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 16:46:14 +0300 Reply-To: iad@math.bas.bg Subject: Re: [lojban] centripetality: subset vs component Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1649 Lines: 36 Bob LeChevalier (lojbab) wrote: [to Pilch Hartmut] > >But for oral speech it is even clearer that you don't listen to > > > > four thousand three hundred and eighty seven point three nine four ... > >as a whole. > > In Russian they apparently do. I have not seen Russian abbreviate > years, or say them other than spelled out in full like above. Russian abbreviates years by leaving out the thousands and hundreds (when presumed known) and only stating the tens and ones. There is no standard way of indicating that nothing is being left out and what is stated is the full number of a year of the first century -- though context should be enough in any case. Regarding addresses on letters, in BG they used to be written with the country first and the recipient's name last until about 15 years ago (give or take ...), when the opposite convention (which I had been used to thinking of as Western European, not American) was introduced. -- (Abu t-Tayyib Ahmad Ibn Hussayn al-Mutanabbi) Ivan A Derzhanski H: cplx Iztok bl 91, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria W: Dept for Math Lx, Inst for Maths & CompSci, Bulg Acad of Sciences ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Best friends, most artistic, class clown Find 'em here: http://click.egroups.com/1/4054/3/_/17627/_/958225547/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com