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Re:How the UK lost its shipbuilding industry by oblio on Monday November 10, 2025 @03:45AM (#45873879)
> XXIer century

Sorry, but it's a bit funny. Based on the name I assume you're French (speaking, at least)?

That "XXIer" contraption is really funny to me, I speak a bit of French. In English it's twenty first so XXI or XXIst, in French as far I know it's vingt et unième, so XXI or XXIème.

Is "XXIer" from another French dialect or another language entirely?

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Re:How the UK lost its shipbuilding industry by femtozer on Monday November 10, 2025 @04:00AM (#45873977)
As a french person, it looks weird to me. I would only use it for the very first century: Ier siècle.
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Re:How the UK lost its shipbuilding industry by fmajid on Monday November 10, 2025 @07:15AM (#45875207)
Probably German (Zwanzig Erster)
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Re:How the UK lost its shipbuilding industry by oblio on Monday November 10, 2025 @07:56AM (#45875506)
See, that's the problem with (my) assumptions :-D
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