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Date: 22 May 2002 10:27:55 +0000
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At 11:25 AM +0200 2002/05/22, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:

>  Somewhat like in older English.  It just occurred to me, by the way,
>  that "quatre-vingts" could be translated as "fourscore" which dates to
>  the 13th century.  Maybe there's a connection there.

	Sounds like good reasoning.  Of course, we dumped things like 
"four score" many years ago.

>  Depends on their height; for a woman less than 150 cm tall (quite
>  unusual in the Netherlands), perhaps 49 kg seems overweight.

	She's not that short.  And she's not 49kg.

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