From p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk  Fri Mar 20 21:19:32 1998
From: p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard BSA)
Date: 20 Mar 1998 22:19:32 +0100
Subject: a handy function "format.cardinal", looking for a proper name..
In-Reply-To: Thomas Lumley's message of Fri, 20 Mar 1998 10:15:28 -0800 (PST)
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Message-ID: <x24t0t3vrv.fsf@blueberry.kubism.ku.dk>

Thomas Lumley <thomas@biostat.washington.edu> writes:

>=20
> On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Martin Maechler wrote:
> >=20
> >     TL> ordinal(1:3,"francais")
> >     TL> "1re" "2me" "3me"
> > =09  ^^
> > =09is this okay, even for males? (premier / premi=E8re)
> >=20
>=20
> good point.  It would be "1er", not "1re". We do need a gender argumen=
t.

I thought it was "1ere" "2eme", etc.?

We probably shouldn't go into "erster, zweiter, dritter,..." and the
Austrian and Swiss variants thereof, though. ;^)

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a handy function "format.cardinal", looking for a proper name..
Peter Dalgaard BSA