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minus-squareSpaceCowboy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down3·6 days agoEnglish doesn’t have proper words for 13 to 19.
minus-squareDharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·6 days agoI’d argue we do have proper words for 13-19, but don’t have proper words for 11&12
minus-squareDharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 days agoDon’t you mean base 10 ;)
minus-squaresem@piefed.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 days agoYou’re annoying, but thats what you wanted right?
minus-squareDharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 days agoI mean, I was being a pedantic ass, but I was trying to be playful about it.
minus-squaresem@piefed.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 days agoHehe yeah, and i was trying to give you a playful hard time too :p Tone is hard via text.
minus-squareaaa@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 days agoI feel like most other European languages I have heard do not either. (Well, what is “proper” anyways?) Care to share a language that does?
minus-squareSpaceCowboy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 days agoYou need to ask OP. I’m just using “proper word” within the same context that OP is using.
minus-squareBeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 days agoI’d guess ten one, ten two, ten three
minus-squareSpaceCowboy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 days agoThirteen is basically just three-ten, fourteen is four-ten, etc.
minus-squareBeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 days agoI do understand that, but equally it doesn’t follow the convention we use for the rest of the numbers.
English doesn’t have proper words for 13 to 19.
I’d argue we do have proper words for 13-19, but don’t have proper words for 11&12
Base 12 represent!
Don’t you mean base 10 ;)
You’re annoying, but thats what you wanted right?
I mean, I was being a pedantic ass, but I was trying to be playful about it.
Hehe yeah, and i was trying to give you a playful hard time too :p
Tone is hard via text.
It really is haha
I feel like most other European languages I have heard do not either. (Well, what is “proper” anyways?) Care to share a language that does?
You need to ask OP. I’m just using “proper word” within the same context that OP is using.
I’d guess ten one, ten two, ten three
Thirteen is basically just three-ten, fourteen is four-ten, etc.
I do understand that, but equally it doesn’t follow the convention we use for the rest of the numbers.
Wat