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Worx@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Google translate gives me “Dix-neuf quatre-vingt-dix-neuf” for nineteen ninety nine.

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  • Feyr@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Close. Dix neuf cent quatre-vingt dix neuf

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    • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      isn’t that nineteen hundred ninety nine?

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      • Hagdos@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yes, both would work.

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  • SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, but that assumes they say it this way. They do not

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• basxto@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Isn’t generally common to have two digit hundred numbers if they are more convenient / shorter to say than with thousand?

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  • Worx@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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

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    • basxto@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’ve heard in German, though we also have bills >100€. But I don’t think that’s the reason for it. Fifteen hundred is a lot shorter to say than one thousand five hundred and it’s roughly the same length in German. I think I’ve only heard it for numbers <2000 and with the last two digits being 0.

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  • SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    no

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• ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Definitely not. Imagine what people must have thought of us, had we done that…?

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