MTZ@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 7 days agoWhat a relief!lemmy.worldimagemessage-square20linkfedilinkarrow-up1337arrow-down10
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minus-squareWorx@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up41·7 days agoTo be fair, it’s not like we were saying “one thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine”
minus-squareBaŝto@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 days agoIsn’t generally common to have two digit hundred numbers if they are more convenient / shorter to say than with thousand?
minus-squareWorx@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·6 days agoIn America, yes. In the UK, no (although it is getting more common with younger people I find) I heard a theory that it’s because Americans have $100 bills, whereas the UK only goes up to £50. So counting up in hundreds is more natural in America
minus-squaresomeguy3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·7 days agoGoogle translate gives me “Dix-neuf quatre-vingt-dix-neuf” for nineteen ninety nine.
minus-squareSchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·5 days agoYeah, but that assumes they say it this way. They do not
minus-squareFeyr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·7 days agoClose. Dix neuf cent quatre-vingt dix neuf
minus-squaresomeguy3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down1·7 days agoisn’t that nineteen hundred ninety nine?
minus-squarepotoooooooo ☑️@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 days agoDefinitely not. Imagine what people must have thought of us, had we done that…?
To be fair, it’s not like we were saying “one thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine”
Isn’t generally common to have two digit hundred numbers if they are more convenient / shorter to say than with thousand?
In America, yes. In the UK, no (although it is getting more common with younger people I find)
I heard a theory that it’s because Americans have $100 bills, whereas the UK only goes up to £50. So counting up in hundreds is more natural in America
no
Google translate gives me “Dix-neuf quatre-vingt-dix-neuf” for nineteen ninety nine.
Yeah, but that assumes they say it this way. They do not
Close. Dix neuf cent quatre-vingt dix neuf
isn’t that nineteen hundred ninety nine?
Yes, both would work.
Definitely not. Imagine what people must have thought of us, had we done that…?