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To: FLT-bird
I've been learning Polish. Polish is child's play compared to Hungarian.

Although Polish has this:

Ways to say the number "Two".....
17 posted on 10/26/2023 9:04:54 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

WOW! That is really funky. I had no idea Polish did that.

The only other really crazy thing I’ve seen wrt counting is French. 80 = four times twenty. Their word for 90 is four times twenty plus 10. German of course, does the counting for 20-99 the opposite way from English. 21 = one and twenty. 83 is three and eighty, etc.


24 posted on 10/26/2023 10:06:12 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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