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The same should then also apply to the German. French is even worse with their sixty ten (70) and four twenty (80) and four twenty eleven (91). This problem i
by eveningcoffee 11y ago
The same should then also apply to the German.
French is even worse with their sixty ten (70) and four twenty (80) and four twenty eleven (91).
This problem is actually obvious to any parent whose native language has natural naming for numbers after 10 but whose kid gets math education in any of the mentioned languages.
Some languages have separate but still unified names for the teens (compared to the other tens). I think that it would actually really make sense to also unify these names.
I also think that kids should be introduced to some other numerical system beside decimal in their early years.
- rjsw 11y agoThis should be easy to test with French speakers, compare those living in France with those in Switzerland. French speaking Swiss use septante (70), huitante (80) and nonante (90).
- achamayou 11y agoThe same goes for Belgium.
- douche 11y agoOn the other hand, for other purposes, German is a far more regular and logical language than English. Generally, complicated nouns and verbs are composed of simpler nouns and verbs. Quite often, the German word for a thing is a pretty bald description of what it is, whereas the English word often is some sort of one-off, where it is not a loan-word stolen from some other language: Panzerkampfwagen = Armored battle wagon Tank = (British code word that stuck for some reason) or Schreibtisch = writing table Desk = ?
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- rawTruthHurts 11y agoTrue that. Enjoy those genders and plurals!!
- mhandley 11y agoThe french have it easy. Danish for ninety - halvfems - is essentially "(5 - 1/2) * 20". Doesn't seem to hurt their maths though.
- walshemj 11y agoI remember (in the uk) doing different bases when I was 9 or 10 and we did binary at 14 in the computing class