[Manishearth]

> Same deal with English.

>

> Which is similar in complexity to English, just the order of speaking is reversed.

Yes, I was mentioning these to paint an accurate picture, not to contrast with English :)

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As a native Marathi / nonnative Hindi speaker, I can tell you that the Hindi numbers are pretty hard to get, and took me forever to get used to, even though the variations are almost the same as the ones Marathi has.

(However if you asked me about Marathi I'd have the exact same response as you, "what complexity? oh wait I see I've memorized everything oops")