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> nobody uses the construct "xx hundred" for numbers above 9. I use it all the time. What's easier to say, "one thousand two hundred" or "twelve hundred"?
by jallmann 12y ago
> nobody uses the construct "xx hundred" for numbers above 9.
I use it all the time. What's easier to say, "one thousand two hundred" or "twelve hundred"?
- Retra 12y ago"Twelve hundred" is no weirder than "Ten thousand."
- Sami_Lehtinen 12y agoNor stranger than 1 dekaliter. Some units are just used more often than others.
- ajuc 12y agoHow about twelve tens for 120? That how it sounds to me ;)
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- Retra 12y agoYou mean a decadozen?
- allendoerfer 12y agoAs a German watching some English podcasts I am now used to it, but at first I pictured the trailing zeros in my head to understand it fast enough in spoken language.
- rmc 12y agoI think it's an American English dialect thing. I'm from Ireland, a dialect close to British English, and always found it odd when they say it on US TV
- anon4 12y agoDepends on the language. In some, "one thousand two hundred" is about as simple as "thousand and twondred", while "twelve hundred" is "twoovertenhundred" and quite a mouthful.
- ajuc 12y agoThis is cultural. In Polish there's separate word for n-hundred. 200 is dwieście, 300 is trzysta, etc. So nobody thinks about number of hundreds and tousands as connected thing, we just divide the number differently because of language. Imagine someone told you "twelve tens" for 120 :) Anyway, "tysiąc dwieście" for 1200 is easier than "twelve hundred" or "dwanaście setek".