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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (8 children)

I've just realised Americans don't say the "and" in numbers.

So instead of "a hundred and ninety six", they remove the "and", and they've just been walking around saying things like "a hundred ninety six" for years.

[–] randombullet 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Chinese say 1 hundred 9 ten 6 as an added data point

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That pretty much makes sense - and the American manner makes sense, it's just so similar to what I'm familiar with, but slightly different, so looks really wrong to my brain.

[–] randombullet 2 points 6 days ago

Germans say 1 hundred 6 and 9 ten... Because Germans like to be special. Learning German makes me appreciate Chinese and English counting. Although the -hundred delimitation confuses foreign speakers. Such as 15-hundred is actually 1,500

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