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YeetPics@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

“One and eight hundred and fifty two thousandths”.

Or

“1.852”

You get to decide what’s efficient to communicate a specific value based on the criticality of precision and the format of communication.

Like it or not, but peak compatibility is peak efficiency when it comes to language.

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MisterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
1.852 all the way in every single context. I will die on this hill haha

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- YeetPics@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  We die on that hill together, brother!
  
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LANIK2000@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I especially hate what we the Czechs do. We mostly read numbers the same (21 = twenty one), but then once every blue moon some dimwit says 21 like “one and twenty” like he’s fucking German or something. German is bad enough, but why do we have to mix it???

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- notthebees@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I thought it was french that did that
  
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  - LANIK2000@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    French is even more special.
    
    Tho like I said before, it’s not perfectly accurate. In Czech 90 + 2 is the official way, but many people around Prague and closer to Germany do in fact occasionally say 2 + 90.
    
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