Re: Numbers in Qthen|gai (and in Tyl Sjok) [long]

Tristan,
I think I'm just strange. ;) My Arabic teacher thinks so, too.
Krista

>And kcasada said:
>
>> I am told by them that know better (being BAD at decimals myself) that
>> a
>> number such as 9.54 would be written 9,54 (except that the comma is
>> "backwards") and read "nine fasilah four and fifty" where "fasilah" is
>> the
>> word for the backwards comma. I then asked whether a person could
>> actually say
>> something closer to "fifty-four hundredths," and was told that you
>> COULD say
>> "fasilah four and fifty from a hundred" but "Nobody ever does that."
>> Go figure. I love this language.
>
>Well, if you'd asked me, I would've said no-one read '9.54' as anything
>but nine-point-five-four (in English), and it would never've occurred
>to me to ask about the fifty-four hundredths use---is this something
>you normally do in English? (Saying nine-point-fifty-four was the sort
>of thing my grade five teacher told us off for all the time.)
>
>--
>Tristan.