Home Forums SQL Server 7,2000 T-SQL What is your favorite "I didn't know that" moment in T-SQL? RE: What is your favorite "I didn't know that" moment in T-SQL?

  • Koen Verbeeck (8/8/2013)


    Sean Lange (8/8/2013)


    This whole English thing is the reason we American's don't know any other languages. All the others have actual rules that you follow all of the time. In English our rules are more like guidelines. We follow them most of the time, except for all the exceptions. It takes more than a lifetime to master such a complex and loose set of rules. We just don't have time to learn another language, and we would hate to realize that the other languages make far more sense than our own. :hehe:

    Not all languages make sense. In Dutch we say some of the numbers backwards. For example, we say 62 as 'twee en zestig', which translates to 'two and sixty'.

    Just to confuse the hell out of everyone trying to learn our language 😀

    And especially useful when you are dictating a phone number or house number over the phone...

    We used to do that here in England, with time of day - my Mother still does - "five and twenty to three" = 2:35 :w00t:

    Oh, and I completely "got" your "Indeed it doesn't" comment - it's those crazy Americans that don't use English properly like what we do :hehe:

    MM



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