Comment on Anon is French

• Asetru@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  English has “twenty-one”, but no “onety-one”.

  But you have teens? Thirteen, fourteen etc? It’s just that a dozen was kind of special, so eleven and twelve are kind of irregular, but afterwards it’s just ordinary base 10, isn’t it?

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  • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But the endian switches for the teens — twenty three is “tens place ones place,” but thirteen is “ones place tens place.”

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  • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well, English does. Not my native language.

    Yes, my point exactly. No “onety-one”, because “eleven”.

    Same with other languages.

    But “thirteen”, “fourteen” etc, you think are as regular as “twenty one”, “thirty three” “forty five”?

    It is base-10 all the way through, but I’m just pointing out that probably at one point in history, even other languages, for some reason, counted 1-20 differently than 20+ numbers and they sort of stuck.

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