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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);"><a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a></span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Idiomatica" 2009.01.05 (07) [E]</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">from heather rendall <a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk" target="_blank">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Kevin wrote <span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">But what about when it starts as "nine" but
it's really "nineteen"? Then you have to stick a "1" in
front. Not to mention mishearing "fifteen" as "fifty"
or vice versa (or any of the other teens).</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Good point!
and that makes it all the more fascinating! So do we develop a double standard
( in what ever language we speak) that, when we can write as we hear, we do - I
have watched Germans writing from right to left i.e. units first and I have
seen French speakers cross out an 8 and change it to a 9 because they have
written too quickly when hearing 'quatre-vingt-treize'</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">But when we
HAVE TO LISTEN to the whole number being said, we wait i.e. I am not aware of
writing 9 and then putting the 1 in front in English ( tho' I probably
would do if I was listening to German!) My instant reaction is that I write
after the end of the number . How do my ears tell the difference from
"Nine -ty-nine" and "Nine -teen"? Do my ears tell the
difference?</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">What are
other members aware of? Writing units first for German speakers? Waiting for
the whole number? A Mixture of the two Or do we react too quickly to tell the
difference?</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I was being
rather tongue-in-cheek about English speakers being aware of 3 different
systems,as most people are NOT aware and recognise only the isolated examples
they come across : i.e. biblical quote re man's life and 4 & 20
blackbirds.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">You could
also add to this Yan tan tethera pethera pimp and Hickory Dickory Dock
supposedly remnants of Old British - or Eeny Meeny Miney Mo which you
also find in German Nursery rhymes e.g. Eene Meene Morte Wer bäckt Torte...</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">What did
Kipling call them? " Eeny Meeny Miney Mo - The big 1 to 4 of
long ago"</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Heather</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
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