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r/mildlyinteresting • u/Expensive_Ad6082 • 4d ago
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Except you write "ninety nine" not "nine nine"
55 u/JohnStern42 4d ago Sure, but in this case they just write out the digits, serves the same purpose, no? -64 u/Vulpes_macrotis 4d ago But that's dumb. Are we having language for fun or for some actual purpose. 99 is ninety nine, not nine nine. It doesn't serve the same purpose. One is correct, other is not. 8 u/TheGreatBenjie 4d ago Pretty sure either work for the purpose it's accomplishing dude quit being a pedant.
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Sure, but in this case they just write out the digits, serves the same purpose, no?
-64 u/Vulpes_macrotis 4d ago But that's dumb. Are we having language for fun or for some actual purpose. 99 is ninety nine, not nine nine. It doesn't serve the same purpose. One is correct, other is not. 8 u/TheGreatBenjie 4d ago Pretty sure either work for the purpose it's accomplishing dude quit being a pedant.
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But that's dumb. Are we having language for fun or for some actual purpose. 99 is ninety nine, not nine nine. It doesn't serve the same purpose. One is correct, other is not.
8 u/TheGreatBenjie 4d ago Pretty sure either work for the purpose it's accomplishing dude quit being a pedant.
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Pretty sure either work for the purpose it's accomplishing dude quit being a pedant.
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u/Iustis 4d ago
Except you write "ninety nine" not "nine nine"