Iconoclast@feddit.uk to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 8 days agoWhat’s an obscure but concrete technical fact that keeps creating preventable issues in the real world?message-squaremessage-square112linkfedilinkarrow-up1127arrow-down11
arrow-up1126arrow-down1message-squareWhat’s an obscure but concrete technical fact that keeps creating preventable issues in the real world?Iconoclast@feddit.uk to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 8 days agomessage-square112linkfedilink
minus-squaregandalf_der_13te@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up24·8 days agoOn top of that, you would pronounce 678 as six-hundred-seven-ty-eight in english … guess what it is in german: Sechs-hundert-acht-und-sieb-zig (literally six-hundred-eight-and-seven-ty) i’m actually trying to change this point specifically because it irks me … but i am sadly alone with it.
minus-squareHobbitFoot @thelemmy.clublinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·7 days agoBut French has a number problem four twenty ten nine times worse.
On top of that, you would pronounce 678 as six-hundred-seven-ty-eight in english … guess what it is in german:
Sechs-hundert-acht-und-sieb-zig (literally six-hundred-eight-and-seven-ty)
i’m actually trying to change this point specifically because it irks me … but i am sadly alone with it.
But French has a number problem four twenty ten nine times worse.
This is soo nineties!