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Raincrowlee
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 Message 25 of 26
17 July 2012 at 5:00pm | IP Logged 
Rykketid wrote:
Well, the English way to name years is a bit weird but brilliant at the same time...

1990---> nineteen ninety

2012---> twenty twelve

and so on and so forth...

It's weird because I think that it is the only language that splits years into two
numbers, in Italian we would say millenovecentonovanta (1990, one thousand nine hundred
ninety), but it is also brilliant because it's much easier to say nineteen ninety
rather than one thousand nine hundred ninety.


Chinese will just read out the numbers of the year one by one. 2012 will be read as er, ling, yi, er -- two, zero, one, two.
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 Message 26 of 26
21 July 2012 at 11:07am | IP Logged 
Dutch can use the English year-counting system too (negentiennegentig).
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