On 4/02/19 9:25 PM, Christian Gollwitzer wrote:
Am 04.02.19 um 09:18 schrieb Christian Gollwitzer:
I think English is quite "unique" with writing out the ending of the
ordinals attached to arabic numerals.
Of course, there is a Wikipedia page about it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_indicator
So I was wrong and the abbreviated suffix is as common as the period
over the European languages.
Christian
That's a comprehensive read. Thanks!
Left me with a few thoughts:
1 the Irish is "syncopated". No wonder that accent presents me with
difficulties!
2 this is all very difficult, and
3 the OP must be re-thinking his choices (or questioning his sanity) by now!
Following your earlier contribution and its use of words such as "rare",
"unusual", "mess", and "unique" I wondered just how relevant the ordinal
might be?
Herewith a few minutes of very un-scientific/statistically-irrelevant
discovery - wherein I learned that English investors are leery of
Alphabet because of their rate of investment (!?) and the Portuguese are
concerned that their schools' computers are aged-rubbish.
I surveyed a number of the better-known European news-papers' web-sites
to see what they do (under the (perhaps mistaken) assumption that they
represent their country's use of dates):-
Great Britain
The Times (of London) February 5 2019, 12:01am,
French (translations: 'published on-site at...', 'published on the...')
Le Monde avec AFP Publié hier à 08h06, mis à jour hier à 12h08
Publié le 14 janvier 2019 à 15h04 - Mis à jour le 14 janvier 2019 à 16h03
Le Figaro: Publié le 04/02/2019 à 19:45
Germany
Handelsblatt Dienstag, 5. Februar 2019 (also FAZ)
Welt Stand: 01.02.2019 | Lesedauer: 4 Minuten
Bild 05.02.2019
Italy
la Repubblica 05 Febbraio 2019
Portugal
Diário de Notícias Terça-feira, 5 de fevereiro de 2019
Publico 4 de Fevereiro de 2019
Spain
El País 5 FEB 2019
El Mundo martes, 5 de febrero de 2019
So, even with the French making their dates into sentences, not a single
one uses ordinals!
- did the computer people in all these languages/cultures decide that
the more numeric approach was better/easier/...
(ie simpler/less-complex)
Not even the convention/use of title-case is consistent!
After all this, I think I need to quietly go away and sleep it off...
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