I think many English speakers would admit 11 through 19 are a bit of a weird case. It would probably make more sense if we went ten, oney-one, oney-two, etc. I

I think many English speakers would admit 11 through 19 are a bit of a weird case. It would probably make more sense if we went ten, oney-one, oney-two, etc. I imagine most English people subconsciously treat 13-19 as individually named as 0-12 are, rather than comprehending them as a composition of two numbers as 20-99 are. That said, based on the other commenters here, the mixed endian nature of German counting seems very strange to me, being able to generally read numbers the same way they're serialised on paper seems useful.