Counting

[norgeskog]

Need help, when we say 20 it is twenty, when we say 10 it is ten. Why not say, to make things uniform, one-te for 10, one-te-one for 11, one-te-two for 12, one-te-three for 13, and so on.

 

[PolishedTopaz]

AHHHH Grasshopper.......now you know why english is the hardest language to learn.

 

[choclatechef]

OMG! Not only will I need to learn metrics, but I will need to learn to count again!

Save me from such numerical horrors.....

 

[middie]

i can barely count as is... don't expect me to learn how to again lol

 

[pdswife]

#'s suck.

lol

 

[lindatooo]

Numbers are my nemesis! Haven't been able to remember a phone number since speed dialing became available...can't add or subtract since I got a calculator....I'm a mess!

 

[choclatechef]

I guess the politically correct thing to say is that most women on this forum appear to be numerically challenged.

That is because as women we know everything else!

 

[Raine]

I can count in Japanese

ichi
ni
san
shi
go
roku
shichi
hachi
kyu
ju

11 would be ju ichi
12 ju ni

 

[mudbug]

So my Uncle Junie (short for Junior) would be "Uncle Twelve" in Japanese. Love it.

 

[buckytom]

that's the way it is in german norgeskog, after you get past the teens (why does so much clear up and get easier after the teens? )


for instance:
eins, zwei, drei, vier, funf, sechs, sieben, acht, neun, zehn, for 1 to 10.
then elf, zwolf, for 11 and 12, (see, they're oddballs)
then dreizehn (3 - 10, or 13), vierzehn (4 - 10 or 14), funfzehn, sechszehn, siebzehn, achtzehn, neunzehn, zwanzig, for 15 thru 20.
then it gets easy, just the first 9 numbers and the decade marker. such as 21 is einsundzwanzig, or 1 and 20. 35 would be 5 and 30, or funfunddreizig.
it's very easy...

 

[ronjohn55]

BRING BACK ROMAN NUMERALS!!!!!!!


John

 

[crewsk]

This is almost like asking why does pneumonia start with a "p"?

 

[buckytom]

lol crewsk, i don't know how yous guys get pneumonia down there in norris, but up here we get it from coughing and sneezing...

 

[crewsk]

We get it from going outsde in the winter with our head wet. At least that's what my grandma always says!

 

[buckytom]

BRING BACK ROMAN NUMERALS!!!!!!!


John

i II'nd that!!!!!

 

[norgeskog]

I guess I am a rare one here, I excelled in math and was always the first one to sit down in a spelling bee. And with self correcting computers, still cannot spell. Then learning other languages really messed up things. I still do not remember i before e or the other way around and the exceptions for it. UGH...

 

[middie]

math an i are enemies. we don't get along at all

 

[DampCharcoal]

I'm like Middie. To quote a Jimmy Buffett song, "Math Sucks!" You people are making my head hurt again!!! At least I've learned that collectively, we can count in a half dozen languages!