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Anon is French (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

English has "twenty-one", but no "onety-one".

But you have teens? Thirteen, fourteen etc? It's just that a dozen was kind of special, so eleven and twelve are kind of irregular, but afterwards it's just ordinary base 10, isn't it?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Well, English does. Not my native language.

    Yes, my point exactly. No "onety-one", because "eleven".

    Same with other languages.

    But "thirteen", "fourteen" etc, you think are as regular as "twenty one", "thirty three" "forty five"?

    It is base-10 all the way through, but I'm just pointing out that probably at one point in history, even other languages, for some reason, counted 1-20 differently than 20+ numbers and they sort of stuck.

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