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Roman Numerals And Such

Angel Beat

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Hm, yes.. When writing down a number in a sentence, like 34 or one thousand, it's probably best if you don't use Roman numerals. Especially number one, the "I". It gets particularly disconcerting when you're reading a few sentences and suddenly you'll read something like "There was I Toa". I don't know about you, but I'm used to reading the "I" in there as the me-person, not a Roman numeral*. It's especially annoying when in the rest of the text all of the other numbers are written down in digits or words.

 

So please, to make it easier for everyone, use digits or words. ;)

 

Just wanted to get that out of my chest cavity.

 

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In other news, my books have arrived and I'll be sure to read them as soon as I can.

Also, I finally bought the Star Wars original trilogy on DVD, as well as The Mummy Legends, a box with both recent Mummy films and the Scorpion King.

 

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In March, a couple of BoA re-issues will come out. They're the Korean albums My Name and Girls on Top. They will be special Japanese releases and they will have a bonus DVD each.

 

Guess I'll pre-order them some time soon. :P

 

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I will also buy some tickets for Wacken Open Air. Will buy them next month, seeing as I kinda spent a lot of money already. :blush:

 

 

 

 

 

*Thanks a lot, Nukky. :P

 

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Love can make a miracle, my dear...

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Aoran

I day ago, there were IXV Birds sitting on I Telephone Pole.

Why I mentioned that I've no idea, Valenti :P But still, it is an important message.

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Toaraga

MIX it up; use a LID! (Albeit, L is 50, and D is 500, so it's not accurate.)

 

Play with CLIX toys.

 

The cake is a LI. Now enjoy LI cakes with MIX people.

 

Read DC comics. (That has a double meaning.) :P

 

©MCMLXXXIV-MMVIII Toaraga EAM

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Nukora
Is IXV a real number? O.o

xD

 

Why yes, of course it is important. ;)

XIV is proper, but it's 14.

 

MIX it up; use a LID! (Albeit, L is 50, and D is 500, so it's not accurate.)

 

Play with CLIX toys.

 

The cake is a LI. Now enjoy LI cakes with MIX people.

 

Read DC comics. (That has a double meaning.) :P

 

©MCMLXXXIV-MMVIII Toaraga EAM

I've always wanted to 1009 it up. I probably have around 159 toys. No way am I reading 400 comics. Just...no.

 

On a somewhat similar note, I just found out that on old typewriters, they used "l" for 1. Apparently it was the type of lowercase L that looked like 1.

 

Roman Numerals. Their numbers are the same as ours. :P I'd say using them in sentences would be excusable if you're writing in Latin though.

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Angel Beat
XIV is proper, but it's 14.

 

 

On a somewhat similar note, I just found out that on old typewriters, they used "l" for 1. Apparently it was the type of lowercase L that looked like 1.

 

Roman Numerals. Their numbers are the same as ours. :P I'd say using them in sentences would be excusable if you're writing in Latin though.

Yeah, XIV's the right one.

 

 

Numerals, that's the one. Got a bit confused over there. xD *goes to change it*

As far as I know, BZP isn't written in Latin. :P

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