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[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago

Are all German numbers like that?

[-] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

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.

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[-] callyral@pawb.social 5 points 2 years ago

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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[-] smik@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 years ago

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

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[-] snooggums@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.de 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.

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[-] Imhotep@lemmy.world 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

[-] illi@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

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

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