[Arm-netbook] possessive "it's"

Normand Chamberland gemnoc at gmail.com
Sat Sep 10 20:25:07 BST 2016


On 2016-09-10 at 15:15, Stefan Monnier wrote :
>>  in french, the number "98" is *five syllables* with a massive amount
> Sorry, but I only count 3 (or 4 if you pronounce the "e") syllables
> in "nonante-huit".
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>         Stefan "speaking French from another country than France"
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Sorry Stefan, but I strongly doubt that "nonante" for 90 and "septante"
for 70 are widely used in Francophonie. The most widely used term should
take precedence over regionalisms.

https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/nonante

            Normand "from Québec, Canada where "nonante" is *never,
ever* used."




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