• StThicket@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    Old people tend to say 2+90 while young people say 90+2. I heard that this new way of saying it was due to the introduction of the telephone, where people needed a more linear way of saying the numbers to reduce confusion. But I don’t have a source.

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      1 year ago

      I guess the telephone just didn’t arrive properly in German speaking countries, at least we will soon get rid of most fax machines, hopefully that is…