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| quote: | Originally posted by XeQtOr
Kahdestuhannesviidessadaskahdeksaskymmenesensimmäinen  |
That's easy cuz it's in the basic form... when you start inflexing the sentences is when it gets totally fucked up.
eg. to write - in letters - something like "he came from the 2591st apartment" in Finnish, it would be:
"hän tuli kahdennestatuhannestaviidennestäsadannestayhdeksännestäkymmenennestäensimmäisestä asunnosta."
...and that's with only four digits in the figure, just try and imagine what it would be like when you're talking about 6-digit or larger numbers. That's also why I've sort of adopted the english way of saying large numbers; I only do inflexing on the last digit to make the numbers understandable - plus I save about 90% of the time it would take to pronounce that monster above. 
-typo
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Last edited by typo on Sep-26-2004 at 22:52
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