Re: FK -> non PK - bad design?
Date: 11 Apr 2003 07:19:51 -0700
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>> It is interesting to note that many natural languages don't have
constructs for singular vs. plural, so in those languages this issue
doesn't come up. <<
Written Chinese uses modifiers (counting words) for number and has a wide range of them. You see some of this in English "sheet of paper", " bundle of X", "pair of glasses", etc. Other languages without a plural form use a wide range of collective nouns instead.
>> (There are also some languages with singular, dual, and plural, and
you have to wonder what they would do. But I think they are all dead
languages, so the issue is moot.) <<
Arabic isn't dead yet! Hungarian also has some duals in it. And my Arab students used the plurals. Received on Fri Apr 11 2003 - 16:19:51 CEST