From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: :-) A Brand-New Language! :-)
Date: 2000/04/06
Date: 2000-04-06T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8cicn3$20k$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 38E8E738.45EE0CD5@hello.nl
In article <38E8E738.45EE0CD5@hello.nl>,
Karel Thoenissen <thoenissen@hello.nl> wrote:
Have they
> already reached a standard on the use of am and pm for the
time between
> 12.00 and 1.00? Or in the use of metric units?
Perhaps they don't teach Latin any more in the Netherlands :-)
There has never been any doubt that times after 12 noon are
pm (that's what the phrase means in Latin!)
Interesting to mention metrics units in the one area (times
and dates) where metric proposals have never succeeded in
any country :-)
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-03-31 0:00 :-) A Brand-New Language! :-) John Herro
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Bryce Bardin
2000-04-02 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
2000-04-02 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
2000-04-02 0:00 ` G
2000-04-02 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-02 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-04-03 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-04-02 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-04-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-03 0:00 ` Magnus Larsson
2000-04-03 0:00 ` John Herro
2000-04-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-03 0:00 ` Karel Thoenissen
2000-04-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
2000-04-06 0:00 ` Karel Thoenissen
2000-04-07 0:00 ` pascal.martin
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-24 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
2000-04-24 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
2000-04-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-01 0:00 ` G
2000-04-02 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-04-02 0:00 ` David Botton
2000-04-03 0:00 ` Marc A. Criley
2000-04-03 0:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
2000-04-04 0:00 ` Vinzent Hoefler
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