> the problem of English is not ..teens, but the pronounciation of numbers. Chinese or Korean has one simple syllable for each number I once found when mentall

> the problem of English is not ..teens, but the pronounciation of numbers. Chinese or Korean has one simple syllable for each number I once found when mentally tallying points while grading papers, instead of saying "and a half" in my head, if I say the Chinese "ban" instead (e.g. "four-ban", "seventeen-ban") it becomes far easier to do.