From: Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Date: 2009-05-29T03:23:53+09:00
Subject: Re: death toll

Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
> deka <rocha.deka@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Hi, I am a Brazilian girl and I have a doubt abour numbers in English.
>> I have a book in English where there is a table on cumulative civilian
>> death toll in wars. They put "100s africans, 1000s civil war..." and I
>> would like to know the meaning of the little "s" after the numbers.
> 
> Notice that this is very bad typological style to print digits in
> these cases.  They should have spelled them out: "hundreds of
> africans, thousands of civil wars".

or at least written them as
100's and 1000's
-=r
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