I mean, thisis pretty much the same for all languages...
Fivehundredfiftyfivethousandfivehundredandfiftyfive is not really any easier
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No, but:
Five hundred fifty-five thousand five hundred and fifty-five
is waaaaaay easier than
Fivehundredfiftyfivethousandfivehundredandfiftyfive
Meh
butwiththessdpricesthesedaysyougottaconsiderthestoragecosts
♫ ♪ ♬ One trillion bottles of beer on the wall, one trillion bottles of beer,
you take one down pass it around nine-hundred and ninety-nine billion nine-hundred and ninety-nine million nine-hundred and ninety-nine thousand nine-hundred and ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall.
nine-hundred and ninety-nine billion nine-hundred and ninety-nine million nine-hundred and ninety-nine thousand nine-hundred and ninety-nine bottles of beer onn the wall. Nine-hundred and ninety-nine billion nine-hundred and ninety-nine million nine-hundred and ninety-nine thousand nine-hundred and ninety-nine bottles of beer, you take one down pass it around...
Except, you know, spaces.
How do you feel about Einhundertzweiunddreißigtausendvierhundertfünfundsechzig?
Fairly indifferent TBH
Fair.
I love that band! Wait, no. I was mistaking it for Einstürzende Neubauten.
132465 noice
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Then say it out
Did you hear it or should I repeat?
Once again, please
The Finnish equivalent would be viisisataaviisikymmentäviisituhattaviisisataaviisikymmentäviisi i think
It's even worse cause some of the numbers within the number are conjugated in the partitive case and whenever you want to conjugate the number into one of Finnish's 15 cases you have to apply it onto every number, so that number conjugated in the inessive case (meaning in something) is viidessäsadessaviidessäkymmenessäviidessätuhannessaviidessäsadessaviidessäkymmenessäviidessä i think
Ok, you fin.
555555, too much effort.
How 'bout tschechisches Streichholzschächtelchen?
Chuchichäschtli
Schäschische Tontäschnika.
Love it!
Fünfhundertfünfundzwanzigtausendsechshundert Minuten
how about french counting/way of spelling a number? :D
Read to the tune of "five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes."
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Fümpf.
The spaces between the words is not efficient.
This looks like a fhün language.