Information Is BeautifulHow To Say The Number 92 In Various European Languages
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Thomas P. Moonis@infobeautiful my logical brain can’t accept putting the smaller number first. The most important information is the scale of the number, so saying “ninety” first is more logical. Of course if you take this to its conclusion, saying “one million” isn’t logical because you’ve put “million” second, but I’m not sure what to do with that.
Benjamin Schmidt@MisterMoo @infobeautiful I'm a native German speaker and even I find it bonkers to put the ones digit first. Especially annoying in longer numbers, like 1037 is "eintausend-sieben-und-dreißig", literally "one thousand seven and thirty".
Imagine people dictating phone numbers in blocks of numbers like that...
Saying it "backwards" would totally work, too ("neunzig-zwei" for 92 instead of"zwei-und-neunzig"), but we Germans haven't figured that out, yet :/
Andrez@bluefirex @MisterMoo @infobeautiful But you would lose the German precision when spoken: saying “neunzig zwei” always means “90, 2” for example.
@Andrez @MisterMoo @infobeautiful a comma indicates a slight pause, so you'd pause between 90 and 2 to indicate different numbers. Just like in English. Or when you say 5, 10 and don't mean 15.