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I assume the local languages use 100,000 as a unit, and it is hard to switch units. Chinese uses 10,000 as a unit, so it also makes translation to English diff
by jcampbell1 15y ago
I assume the local languages use 100,000 as a unit, and it is hard to switch units. Chinese uses 10,000 as a unit, so it also makes translation to English difficult.
There are also weird words that Indians use that are Latin rooted words, but uncommon, like "lacuna". I have never met an American that uses that word, nor an Indian that doesn't know what it means.
- r00fus 15y agoIt's probably no worse than the "quatre-vignt-dix" ... 90 in french, literally (4*20)+10... the conversion for those fluent in the language are automatic.
- cgrand-net 15y agoWell, while peculiar, "quatre-vingt dix" is not a unit: nobody is going to say "4 quatre-vingt dix" for 360.
- ZeroGravitas 15y agoYes but the vingt for 20 is used as a unit, like the archaic score as in 4-score and 7 years ago. Nobody said 4 4-score and 10 for 360 either.
- nrbafna 15y agoNope. Almost always done as - 1,000 - Thousand 1,00,000 - Lakh 1,00,00,000 - Crore
- voodoomagicman 15y agoIn what context have you heard Indians use it?
- jcampbell1 15y agoJust to mean a gap, or something missing, e.g. "there is a lacuna in the call records".
- prakashk 15y ago> There are also weird words that Indians use that are Latin rooted words, but uncommon, like "lacuna". I have never met an American that uses that word, nor an Indian that doesn't know what it means. I am an Indian and I have never heard of the word "lacuna" used in the two Indian languages that am proficient in (you do know that there is not one "Indian" language, but many many of them, don't you?)