- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 10:34:21 -0400
- To: Sebastian Zartner <sebastianzartner@gmail.com>
- Cc: Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>, Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>, W3C Style <www-style@w3.org>, www International <www-international@w3.org>
Sebastian Zartner scripsit:
> When you read those two lists in German, you always read them
> ordinally (i.e. 'erstens', 'zweitens', 'drittens', 'viertens'). And I
> assume it is similar in other languages.
Not at all. In English it is normal to read numbered lists with cardinals.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
He made the Legislature meet at one-horse tank-towns out in the alfalfa
belt, so that hardly nobody could get there and most of the leaders
would stay home and let him go to work and do things as he pleased.
--H.L. Mencken's translation of the Declaration of Independence
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