I’d say that the teens having a different structure in English is also weirdly out of place, not that the German counting makes sense. Having a structure where

I’d say that the teens having a different structure in English is also weirdly out of place, not that the German counting makes sense. Having a structure where you always count from highest to lowest, and in the order you would write down the number, just makes more sense. It’s always been weird to me that we have unique words for the tens numbers in English.