Italian is crazy!
Oct. 5th, 2004 01:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brinshannaraOkay, so you know how the English do numbers, right?
One thousand, nine hundred and ninety-four.
Italians? ALL IN ONE WORD.
Millenovecentonovantaquattro.
Does it stop there? No.
12,402? English says twelve thousand, four hundred and two.
Italian says: dodicimilaquattrocentodue.
Does it stop THERE? Heck no!
339,417? English says three hundred, thirty-nine thousand, four hundred and seventeen.
Italian: Trecentotrentanovemilaquattrocentodiciasette.
Mercifully, at one million, they start going like:
un milione insert really long-ass rest of the number here.
I will never complain about French or English numbers ever, ever, ever again.
I will, however, probably complain a lot about Italian numbers in the next few weeks. :)
One thousand, nine hundred and ninety-four.
Italians? ALL IN ONE WORD.
Millenovecentonovantaquattro.
Does it stop there? No.
12,402? English says twelve thousand, four hundred and two.
Italian says: dodicimilaquattrocentodue.
Does it stop THERE? Heck no!
339,417? English says three hundred, thirty-nine thousand, four hundred and seventeen.
Italian: Trecentotrentanovemilaquattrocentodiciasette.
Mercifully, at one million, they start going like:
un milione insert really long-ass rest of the number here.
I will never complain about French or English numbers ever, ever, ever again.
I will, however, probably complain a lot about Italian numbers in the next few weeks. :)
