number format and semantic hairsplitting in China

[Randy Alexander]

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Suppose you ask me my two favorite numbers and I said.  100 and 99 and 200
> and 7.  Would you wonder?
>

No, because there's only one way to parse that.

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Randy Alexander
Jilin City, China
My Manchu studies blog:
http://www.bjshengr.com/manchu

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