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How to say the number 92 (i.imgur.com)

submitted 2 years ago by genfood@feddit.de to c/europe@feddit.de

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[–] snooggums@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

[–] StThicket@reddthat.com 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.

[–] Gamey@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago

I guess the telephone just didn't arrive properly in German speaking countries, at least we will soon get rid of most fax machines, hopefully that is...

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[–] apis@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Something rotten...

Seriously, have trouble enough with numbers anyhow. The French system is far more than my little brain can compute, so I pretend to have learned the language from Belgians.

But who knows, maybe the Danish system would have tipped my infant brain into having a better grasp of some concepts?

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[–] illi@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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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

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