Latin languages, as well as English, speak numbers from left to right, in the same direction in which they are written, e.g. forty-two, quarante-deux, but in German, you write from left to right but
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The question, why German numbers are "backwards" is naive in many ways.
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meh. that statement seems like the epitome of "let's not offend the poor people having to work with this backward language"
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the poor people having to work with this backward language also think their numbers are backwards
You either read them as "1 divided by 4" = "bir bölü dört" or "1 in 4" = "dörtte bir". We have a dedicated word for half and quarter but you wouldn't read the fraction like that
The other day I watched Linus right click a link to a script on GitHub, click "save as..." And then be confused that he got an html file. What a goofball
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