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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (19 children)

Are all German numbers like that?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Yes, Germans say numbers like that. (It only applies to the tens tho)

Roughly translated you'd say two-and-ninety (without the minus, I just made those so it doesn't look that cursed)

It's mainly because at least in German it flows better than ninety two would. There have been pushes to accept ninety two as well but acceptance has been and continues to be scarce.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

(It only applies to the tens tho)

Tens, but also ten-thousands, ten-millions, ten-billions ... you get the gist.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Yes, and it's so annoying. I'm Austrian, a bit dyslexic, and sometime I just can't sevenandeighty sixandseventy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

some (very few, i think it's only the "teens") english numbers are like that, like seventeen (7+10) for example

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Impressive that Norway has bands of different ways to say 92!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Afaik, they've changed the official system from the "German" to the "Swedish" order after WW2, but it is still used by many in spoken language.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Old people tend to say 2+90 while young people say 90+2. I heard that this new way of saying it was due to the introduction of the telephone, where people needed a more linear way of saying the numbers to reduce confusion. But I don't have a source.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'll see you at twenty past nine

NL: oh you mean 10 before the half of 10

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Czechia should also be a combination of both 90+2 and 2+90

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Actually in Estonian it's üheksakümmend kaks. The first being a compound word of nine(üheksa) and ten(kümme) while kaks is just two. So it would be 9+10+2.

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