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I mean, thisis pretty much the same for all languages...
Fivehundredfiftyfivethousandfivehundredandfiftyfive is not really any easier
No, but:
Five hundred fifty-five thousand five hundred and fifty-five
is waaaaaay easier than
Fivehundredfiftyfivethousandfivehundredandfiftyfive
You use numbers instead of the fucking words
Those are numbers, my friend. You mean numerals, but those aren't very helpful in conversation if you can't say them. This is a post about learning a language, not arithmetic.
butwiththessdpricesthesedaysyougottaconsiderthestoragecosts
Meh
♫ ♪ ♬ One trillion bottles of beer on the wall, one trillion bottles of beer,
you take one down pass it around nine-hundred and ninety-nine billion nine-hundred and ninety-nine million nine-hundred and ninety-nine thousand nine-hundred and ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall.
nine-hundred and ninety-nine billion nine-hundred and ninety-nine million nine-hundred and ninety-nine thousand nine-hundred and ninety-nine bottles of beer onn the wall. Nine-hundred and ninety-nine billion nine-hundred and ninety-nine million nine-hundred and ninety-nine thousand nine-hundred and ninety-nine bottles of beer, you take one down pass it around...
Except, you know, spaces.
How do you feel about Einhundertzweiunddreißigtausendvierhundertfünfundsechzig?
132465 noice
Fairly indifferent TBH
Fair.
I love that band! Wait, no. I was mistaking it for Einstürzende Neubauten.
I'm not a native speaker but I'm pretty sure you're using that esset (ß) incorrectly. The esset is used when you have a pair of esses next to each other, whereas "dreizig" is always spelled with a Z to the best of my knowledge (like sechtzig at the end)
Also: 132.465
You could have stopped at "I'm not a native speaker" because this is just wrong in multiple ways.
Yeah but that's just not fun. I prefer to be corrected rather than snubbed
You got the number right, though! yay
Perhaps worth adding that we had a spelling reform in 1996, which kind of put this rule in place.
If you learned German before then or had a teacher who learned it before then, it's possible that you got taught it the old way...
Unless you learned German in Austria-Hungary between 1879 and 1901 of course.
Dreißig is correct, trust me, i am a german guy.
Fiiiine, but I'm gonna complain about it
Fair. „Dreißig“ is quite an outlier.
But wouldn’t it be boring, if the rules didn’t have exceptions?
But also, the way our constant writing reforms are going, I wouldn’t be too surprised, if, at some point, „dreizig“ becomes the correct spelling. In some dialects, it’s already spoken more as a 'z' than a 'ß'.
Then again, I’m still mad at how they massacred the spelling of reflection.
Then say it out
Did you hear it or should I repeat?
Once again, please