The concept really is bullshit, and that’s coming from a German. For certain kinds of triple digit numbers people sometimes resort to saying the single digits in a row (“drei fünf neun” instead of dreiundertneunundfünfzig). Less misunderstandings, and faster.
I’ve been learning German and I call it the surprise ending language because everything is like that. In complex phrases, you often leave the primary verb until the very last word. So you might get something like:
I’d like to, with your daughter and a duck, this coming weekend, at the park, if it’s not raining, with our bicycles, go for a ride.
German numbers are weird because we kinda switch the last two digits.
43 in most languages becomes ‘40 - 3’, but in german you say ‘3 & 40’.
But we do not pronounce the whole number backwards.
143 in most languages becomes ‘100 - 40 - 3’, in german you say ‘100 - 3 & 40’.
I like the sense of suspense. Leave l leaves sometimes critical information to the last second!
The concept really is bullshit, and that’s coming from a German. For certain kinds of triple digit numbers people sometimes resort to saying the single digits in a row (“drei fünf neun” instead of dreiundertneunundfünfzig). Less misunderstandings, and faster.
And you’re trying to tell me that the german language is real?
That word isn’t real.
It’s spelled dreihundertneunundfünfzig
I’ve been learning German and I call it the surprise ending language because everything is like that. In complex phrases, you often leave the primary verb until the very last word. So you might get something like:
I’d like to, with your daughter and a duck, this coming weekend, at the park, if it’s not raining, with our bicycles, go for a ride.
I will accede to your request but only under one condition which is that I come.
That’s ridiculous
We only do that for the numbers 13-19, it’s much more logical.