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HilaryYes, and to make it worse, French people always quote phone numbers as a string of two digit numbers, rather than single digits.
Absolutely does my head in, every time
Dave@regordane @cmconseils Try german... strings of two or three numbers, depending on speech flow. And if it involves the area code of a telephone number, it can go up to 4 or even 5 digits in one string.
Marcos Dione@regordane @cmconseils it does everyone's head in. You can see French people pausing writing numbers down the moment you say 'quatre', which extends if you immediately say 'vingt'.
I imagine there's a pause after soixante as well
@regordane @cmconseils of course, but my phone contains '91', so I had plenty of time of seeing this play out :)
Mine contains 84, 95 and 79, not in that order
TYB@mdione @regordane @cmconseils
Et le mien : 80 11 et je fais toujours une longue pause entre les deux pour éviter que mon correspondant note 91 😆
Et le mien : 80 11 et je fais toujours une longue pause entre les deux pour éviter que mon correspondant note 91 😆
@TYB @regordane @cmconseils ah, ça devrait être interdit! Je t'imagine en disant "quatre-vingt... (geste avec les mains comme si tu posait une boite sur une table) onze (même geste, mais tu mets la boite à coté de l'autre :)".
HighlandLawyer@mdione @regordane @cmconseils
Likewise in Gaelic, when saying X things, the thing is often in the middle of the number.
For example "aon chat deug" one cat ten (11), "dà chat deug" (12), "trì cait deug" three cats ten (13), "ceithir fichead cat 's a h-aon" four twenty cat and one (81).
Likewise in Gaelic, when saying X things, the thing is often in the middle of the number.
For example "aon chat deug" one cat ten (11), "dà chat deug" (12), "trì cait deug" three cats ten (13), "ceithir fichead cat 's a h-aon" four twenty cat and one (81).
@HighlandLawyer @mdione @cmconseils
Gosh, that's not even consistent about whether the tens or the units come first
@regordane @mdione @cmconseils
Twenties or half-hundreds come first, or units when there are no twenties. Also the noun is singular with one, two, twenties, or half-hundreds, and plural otherwise.
Oh, not forgetting that one & two lenite the noun, and two makes feminine nouns prepositional.
Twenties or half-hundreds come first, or units when there are no twenties. Also the noun is singular with one, two, twenties, or half-hundreds, and plural otherwise.
Oh, not forgetting that one & two lenite the noun, and two makes feminine nouns prepositional.
@HighlandLawyer @mdione @regordane @cmconseils
Idem en breton : triwec'h kazh ha pevar-ugent = tri x c'hwec'h kazh ha pevar x ugent (3 x 6 chats et 4 x 20 (98 chats)) noter, bien entendu, que chat est au singulier 🤪
Idem en breton : triwec'h kazh ha pevar-ugent = tri x c'hwec'h kazh ha pevar x ugent (3 x 6 chats et 4 x 20 (98 chats)) noter, bien entendu, que chat est au singulier 🤪
SK53@mdione I've always liked this chunking for phone numbers. AFAIK the Swiss pattern is a chunk of three followed by two chunks of two.
There doesn't seem to be much pattern in how people convey phone numbers here in the UK. Partly, I suspect, because there's some kind of embedded memory of shorter numbers (my current landlines went from 5->6 in 1978 and from 6->7 20-odd years ago).
InsertUser@SK53
I tend to default to the chunking of where I grew up (4 3 4) rather than the UK version which with does 4 4 3, 4 3 4 or 5 3 3 depending on how much of it is area code and how much is actual number.
I don't think I'll ever get used to saying a mobile number one way and having it read back another.
Tom Scott did a rant about the confusing numbering a few years ago. Unlike him I don't think that there being history to it actually makes it good.
Tom Rants About Phone Numbers For Roughly Sixteen Minutes
@InsertUser @mdione Nice video. Only grouse is I would hold that mobile numbers are 3 4 4 although I know many people who do them 5 3 3. I was on the margins of the first consultation for the London phone number split (01->071,081), and remember thinking the chosen approach was rather short-term.
@InsertUser @SK53 similar thing happened in Argentina. The Big City -> prefix didn't happen that way (not sure there was a method; the 3rd city got 051).
Then came a Ma Bell type of split (+ privatization) and we added one digit to the exchange and one to the local. Cell phones are geographic, we also get long distance as a premium, like US; with a 9 there for reasons too.
And.
Let's not forget IPv6 and how well that's going...
@mdione @InsertUser Yeah, we're out of contract because they installed fibre along thestreet for VoIP in March. But, since then, nada. (Current connection is copper - if we're luvky, overhead wire)
Eugene Alvin Villar 🇵🇭@SK53 @mdione @InsertUser I saw this reply first before the OP and wondered how we got to network connections from 99. 😂
Bodhipaksa@regordane @cmconseils It’s easier to remember a string of numbers that way. Your working memory can generally only hold seven items at a time. If you double up the numbers you’re able to remember longer strings.
Jos Dingjan@regordane @cmconseils It does mean that, 20 years after moving away, I still remember my French mobile number.
In French.