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[–] [email protected] 106 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Should be β€œoneteen onety one”

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

🎢So tonight I'm gonna party like it's oneteen onety one.🎢

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Eleven hundred eleven, am I the only one who'd actually say it that way?

[–] Assman 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I make three, anyone else agree?

Edit: added above this. Orig: There is at least eleven hundred and eleven of us but if we reply one at a time this is going to be a long chain.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Two wugs, right?

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

yeah eleventeen would be 111, which coincidentally is the same as tenteen one

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Everyone's focused on 1111.

Me: Twelvedy Twooty Two

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Agreed, but wait until you see this

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It would be eleven eleven if it's following the pattern, is it not

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Or oneteen onety one

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Eleven eleven CE

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The hundreds are implied. It's fine to call it eleven hundred eleven.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If the hundreds are implied, then it's just eleven eleven.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yes. It's eleven hundred and eleven, so you can say that William the 2nd inherited Puglia in eleven eleven. He was only 16, so his mother Adela was the actual ruler from eleven eleven to eleven fourteen.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
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[–] Chais 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If anything, it's oneteen onety one.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oneteen Oneteen

Edit: after doing a bit of research, I'm changing this to Firsteen Firsteen

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Isn't it "eleventy eleven"? I'm sure It is if youre Pooh...or Tigger...

And if you're expecting English to be totally consistent you're going to have a bad time.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

To paraphrase Ron Swanson, everything before 1776 was a mistake.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wouldn't eleventeen be 21?

[–] rustydrd 5 points 1 year ago

Should be oneteen onety one.

[–] DeidraTheMad 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The 4 year old in our house consistently adds in 'eleventeen' in her counting, so we all think it's a real number now lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Words exist because they are used, so it can be a "real" word within your family-lect =)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah. That's twoty one. Which is followed by twoty two. Just like 44 is fourty four. (don't tell me it's spelled forty I know)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

1221: eleventeen eleventy eleven

[–] asciimage 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Levin Uh'Levin

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember counting using onety-one etc. before I started kindergarten πŸ˜† no idea how I still remember that but I do.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

tbf it probably would have been that if there wasn't a period where we counted a lot of stuff in twelves and twenties, that left special words for 11, 12, and 20, with 12 and 20 especially getting the superspecial words "dozen" and "score".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

ONE ONE ONE ONE

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

actually it's 10001010111

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Onteen Onteen?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

One eleventy one.

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

Honest question: in German, do you say "elf elf"?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Awesome! If I ever make an anime, it's going to be called "Elf Hunter Elf"!

(edit: I've already planned the basic story arc and 4 main characters.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Eleventyleven

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

One eleventh one

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

1999: bizarre summer

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