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by jhancock 6122 days ago
Perhaps a bilingual Chinese person could weigh in on this. For this exercise, we are concerned with the language in their head, not what they say when they talk to another. I'm guessing they think in terms of math notation with word-numbers, so "3/5" in their head would be "one-syllable-number" "slash" "one-syllable-number".