XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.books   
   From: robban@clubtelco.com   
      
   On 26/08/13 12:19 PM, Gene Wirchenko wrote:   
   > On Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:08:15 GMT, throopw@sheol.org (Wayne Throop)   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   > [snip]   
   >   
   >> After all, *most* mixed-radix systems still write/communicate things   
   >> in bigendian fashion.  Three pounds seven ounces.  Five hours and   
   >> 34 minutes.  Eight months and ten days.  Folks don't normally go about   
   >> doing things in littlendian order (or worse, like the US date formats,   
   >> chaotic-endian order), unless it's to express an archaism like "four   
   >> and twenty blackbirds".  And even that's limited, since, eg,   
   >> "four score and seven years".   
   >   
   >       Exception: addresses:   
   >            123 456 W. 7th St.   
   >            Someplace, Here  CODE   
   >            Country   
   > Some even get into middle-endian:   
   >            456 W. 7th St., #123   
   >            Someplace, Here  CODE   
   >            Country   
      
   Although Germany and most Slavonic-speaking countries have   
   postcode - town - street - number, but spoil it by having country last.   
   Still, many people write the country in the bottom left-hand corner of   
   the envelope so it isn't really part of the address.   
      
      
   --   
   Robert Bannister   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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