[OT] Re: Benefit and belief

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:23:49 +0000, Curt wrote:

> On 2011-10-17, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info>
> wrote:
>>
>> That is no more deep and meaningful than the fact that while some
>> people say "one plus one equals two", others say "eins und eins gleich
>> zwei", some say "un et un fait deux" and some say "один и один дает
>> два".
>                      ****
> 
> Most of us say "un et un _font_ deux," in fact, because we know how to
> conjugate as well as perform simple arithmetic.
> 
> :-)


I blame Google Translate.




-- 
Steven