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[-] Cheshire@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

On a similar note: In German, "seven hundred fifty three" would be said as "seven hundred three and fifty".

At least it's consistent - starting at "thirteen" , which is "three ten", up to ninety nine, which is "nine and ninety", the multiples of ten come last.

It is pretty annoying, though, when a number like 123'456'789 is spoken as 132-465-798, though.

Apparently, it's because in old Germanic, the numbers were spoken "backwards" (one hundred twenty three being spoken as "three and twenty and hundred"), and we only partially reversed that.

[-] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago
[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Much more regular than English where you have seven-teen but then seventy-one. To be consistent you'd need to switch to either teen-seven or one-seventy.

[-] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I'm okay with saying seven, ten-seven, twenty-seven, etc...

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[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Meanwhile all french speakers understand each other perfectly well.

Do English speakers mistake people saying ninety-nine (99) for them saying ninety nine (90, 9)? No? How come? It's the same thing as in french!

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