TheGrandNagus , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

Just wait until you look into French numbers.

How different languages say 97:

🇬🇧: 90+7 (ok, there is some jank in English numbers - 13-19 are in line with the Germanic pronunciation, i.e. pronounced “right to left”, as a weird hold-over from the more Germanic Old English)

🇪🇸: 90+7

🇩🇪: 7+90

🇫🇷: 4x20+10+7

And if you think that’s bad, the Danes actually make the French look sane…

🇩🇰: 7+(-½+5)x20

Even Danes generally don’t really know why their numbers are like that, they just remember and go along with it.