[lojban] Re: fi'u was Re:lanzu usage

[Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 05:44:32PM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> On Friday 26 March 2004 17:19, Bob LeChevalier wrote:
> > I never considered the use of boi to be that problematical,
> > especially since it can be required sometimes even with pure numbers
> > (JCB's classic example was "five 55-gallon drums").
> 
> Ambiguous in English is "five hundred fifty five gallon drums". The
> total capacity can be 555, 

No, it can't, that would be "five hundred fifty five gallon drum", no
's'.

-Robin

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