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by anton96 1386 days ago
> like how you can read 21:00 as 9 without thinking about it

Well... in French you can totally say twenty-nine instead of just nine (although nine also works). I think that is pretty rare among languages but I'm not sure.

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> I think that is pretty rare among languages but I'm not sure.

Not rare among the ones I know, you can do that all over the Nordics and in Germany. So from my perspective you think wrong.