Absolutely. While I don't know for sure, some blame the new (mixed) way of reading numbers on the proliferation of colonial languages (English and French); i.e

Absolutely. While I don't know for sure, some blame the new (mixed) way of reading numbers on the proliferation of colonial languages (English and French); i.e. people trying to mimic how the numbers are in these languages, but only doing it half way through. The problem though is that this mixed way is used across the region, so it developing independently each time seems a bit way too improbable to be a solid cause.