Subject: Re: [lojban] centripetality: subset vs component

From: Ivan A Derzhanski <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 16:46:14 +0300

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.

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Ivan A Derzhanski <http://www.math.bas.bg/~iad/>
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