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Re:Why are German numbers backwards? by hjek on Sunday November 28, 2021 @07:09AM (#29368259)
... which is especially embarrassing because they got rid of the problem in Swedish and Norwegian.
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Re:Why are German numbers backwards? by daneel_w on Sunday November 28, 2021 @12:24PM (#29370763)
With one small exception in Swedish. We still do it backwards for some numbers in the 10-19 range. 13 = tretton (three ten), 14 = fjorton (four ten), and so on.
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