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Re: The English/French counting system (WAS: number systems from conlangs)

From:Isidora Zamora <isidora@...>
Date:Monday, September 15, 2003, 21:22
>\Hehe, when I was learning Dutch, I've had to get used to getting units >before tens (eenentwintig for twenty-one for instance) and to the fact >that Dutch counts time in half hours, and that half hours are given >corresponding to the *next* hour, not the one they're currently in!!!! So >"half past one" is in Dutch "half twee" ("half two" in literal >translation) and "twenty past one" becomes "tien voor half twee" >(literally "ten before half two").
Oh, yes. I forgot to mention that Danish also counts one-and-twenty, two-and-twenty, etc. That took a while to get used to. I was very slow in processing numbers at first because of this. Isidora

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