• fakeman_pretendname
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    23 hours ago

    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.

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      23 hours 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