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In German would you say "I'm one four and 80" for 184cm? Cause that's confusing :)
by ajuc 6y ago
In German would you say "I'm one four and 80" for 184cm? Cause that's confusing :)
- bhaak 6y agoNot confusing to a native speaker :-) But yes, that's exactly how you would say it in German. There might be some part of the brain reserved to parse that sentence as "I'm (one) (four and 80)" but this doesn't feel weird or confusing at all. Telephone numbers on the other hand are more confusing. Luckily you don't need to say them out loud anymore these days.
- lsinger 6y agoI’d say “one eighty-four” but of course the problem is that in german we mix up the order of the tens and ones. And in fact so does English — it’s twenty-four but fif-teen (five ten, not ten five). In german we do that until 99 (nine and ninety).
- qayxc 6y agoInterestingly, even in English it was common to say things like "five-and-twenty"; it's considered archaic now.
- OJFord 6y agoSuch as in the nursery rhyme you've now put in my head! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sing_a_Song_of_Sixpence https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sing_a_Song_of_Sixpence