On 5/5/06, Shane Hathaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What I *do* see a need for, however, is something that automatically pluralizes properly, so that the system can output "finished 1 copy" instead of "finished 1 copys", "finished 1 copies", or the cop-out, "finished 1 copy(ies)". If Lisp has that functionality built in, that would impress me, even if it's English-only.
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