The spaces between the words is not efficient.
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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
I love that band! Wait, no. I was mistaking it for Einstürzende Neubauten.
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Neuf-Cent-Quatre-Vingt-Dix-Neuf-Mille-Neuf-Cent-Quatre-Vingt-Dix-Neuf
Fümpf.
The Finnish equivalent would be viisisataaviisikymmentäviisituhattaviisisataaviisikymmentäviisi i think
It's even worse cause some of the numbers within the number are conjugated in the partitive case and whenever you want to conjugate the number into one of Finnish's 15 cases you have to apply it onto every number, so that number conjugated in the inessive case (meaning in something) is viidessäsadessaviidessäkymmenessäviidessätuhannessaviidessäsadessaviidessäkymmenessäviidessä i think
Ok, you fin.
As someone learning German, I was able to figure this out pretty quickly since there is a pattern. But I still forget what Warum means every time I see it
Why
The word just isn't sticking with me, I dunno why. If I knew I would fix it and learn it better.
Just remember this conversation. You will forever know what it means.
Ha. Yeah it really wasn't sticking lol
Actually laughed out, have to work harder now.
It was not actually a question, but a translation
Ha. Very much not sticking as you can see.
Read to the tune of "five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes."
555555, too much effort.
How 'bout tschechisches Streichholzschächtelchen?
Chuchichäschtli
Schäschische Tontäschnika.
Love it!
how about french counting/way of spelling a number? :D
Fünfhundertfünfundzwanzigtausendsechshundert Minuten
867-5309
This looks like a fhün language.
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