• captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    I don’t want to hear shit about what order we write numbers in from a continent where numbers include one hundred nine and thirty to mean 139, or three twenties ten and nine for 79

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      If you’re so mad at Fr*nch and German numbers, don’t look up Danish numbers. Unless you can guess what “five and half five’s”. Did you guess 95? Why would you?

    • callyral [he/they]@pawb.social
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      1 year ago

      Seventeen is 7+10 (seven+teen) but twenty one is 20+1 (twenty+one)

      If English was more consistent, seventeen would be ten seven.

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        If it was really consistent, it would be something like onety seven but not really either, since it’s also not twoty seven.

        PS: Eleven would be onety one.