My OperaNow a really (truely) small post, a tiny remark about a tiny bit of language...
Saturday, March 14, 2009 4:25:42 PM
Yeah, the title is longer than the real post.
The English can say a sequence that the Dutch can't. Atleast not without proper care and precautions.
Wait for it, this is a shocker!
The English can say the sequence of two numbers, nine followed by ten.
The entire half of the people reading this (from two, including myself) will go "so what exactly?"
Well, if someone were to say that exact sequence in Dutch, ie. "negen" followed by "tien", then they would say nineteen (negentien).
Just tought that could be interesting, mostlikely known by everyone but me.
Now, it should be said, this only happens (in Dutch) in the range of <15,19> (that's a closed, inclusive range, if I remember correctly). After that we get "correct" and say the most significant part before the least significant part, so twenty-one. Instead of this strange and counter intuitive (atleast, now it is for me) nine-ten.
Thinking a bit more about it, the English language has already started sorting this out, atleast it is further along the path than Dutch, since English has changed the most significant part, while Dutch hasn't, yet.
The English can say a sequence that the Dutch can't. Atleast not without proper care and precautions.
Wait for it, this is a shocker!
The English can say the sequence of two numbers, nine followed by ten.
The entire half of the people reading this (from two, including myself) will go "so what exactly?"
Well, if someone were to say that exact sequence in Dutch, ie. "negen" followed by "tien", then they would say nineteen (negentien).
Just tought that could be interesting, mostlikely known by everyone but me.
Now, it should be said, this only happens (in Dutch) in the range of <15,19> (that's a closed, inclusive range, if I remember correctly). After that we get "correct" and say the most significant part before the least significant part, so twenty-one. Instead of this strange and counter intuitive (atleast, now it is for me) nine-ten.
Thinking a bit more about it, the English language has already started sorting this out, atleast it is further along the path than Dutch, since English has changed the most significant part, while Dutch hasn't, yet.
