[SpamCop-List] Re: spam is NOT 10 days old to me - got it this a.m.

[Mike Easter]

Frank Ellermann wrote:
> Mike Easter wrote:
>
>>> dd.mm.yy
>
>> ... which would be little endian, which seems as illogical
>> and unnatural to me as would be using little endian for a
>> decimal system.
>
> We do little endian from 13 to 19 in languages like en and de,

If you mean the number names such as xxx-teens for English, I seem to
recall that German puts the digits before the tens in the names of a lot
more numbers than just those teens, like vier und zwanzig

> In Arab script (right to left) all decimal numbers are little
> endian, nothing wrong with that.  We use the decimal numbers
> designed for right-to-left as is in our left-to-right scripts,
> not exactly natural.

'/designed/ for right to left?'  As if the shape of a 9 or a 6 or a 3
was 'designed' to 'flow' from right to left?

I never heard of such a thing.

-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin