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Re: A little help, please..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Mar 7 11:57:01 1994
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From: "Matt Gomes" <m_gomes@macsmtp.kla.com>
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Date: 7 Mar 1994 08:26:26 -0800
Reply to: RE>>A little help, please...
jatlh charghwI':
> The only comment I'll add about the answering machine message is that in
> English, we say telephone numbers like: "nine two four, four one eight four."
> We don't say "nine hundred twenty four, four thousand one hundred eighty
> four". I doubt that Klingons would do differently. It would also address your
> wish of making the message shorter, since you can drop all those {SaD}s and
> {moH}s, etc.
Well... in AMERICAN, we usually do that, but I think in the UK, they DO
give the number as one-thousand sixty four. Maybe not in telephone
numbers, but for street addresses. Anyone else?
> charghwI'
-majIq
