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Lol, this could quickly spiral into another beat the dead horse session aka
pythonic indentation. Or was it the other way around?

Jayanth

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Eleanor McHugh <
eleanor / games-with-brains.com> wrote:

> On 28 May 2009, at 19:55, Robert Klemme wrote:
>
>> On 28.05.2009 20:30, Eleanor McHugh wrote:
>>
>>> On 28 May 2009, at 19:23, Roger Pack wrote:
>>>
>>>> Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
>>>>
>>>
>>  Notice that this is very bad typological style to print digits in
>>>>> these cases.  They should have spelled them out: "hundreds of
>>>>> africans, thousands of civil wars".
>>>>>
>>>> or at least written them as
>>>> 100's and 1000's
>>>>
>>> Except that would in principle be 'of the hundred' and 'of the  thousand'
>>> as using the numeric form isn't an abbreviation and so an  apostrophe before
>>> the s isn't appropriate for pluralisation. It is  however an increasingly
>>> widespread usage (thanks to the inability of  many people to use the
>>> apostrophe correctly).
>>>
>>
>> The same happens over here in Germany, just the other way round: although
>> German does not allow for an apostrophe when building a genitive you can see
>> "Dietmar's Hotel" and like phrases with increasing frequency where "Dietmars
>> Hotel" would have been correct.  In the end we will probably all speak some
>> form of "English". :-)
>>
>
> There is a school of thought which believes all punctuation is evil...
>
>
>
> Ellie
>
> Eleanor McHugh
> Games With Brains
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