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The context is people learning the language though... this sort of efficiency will always come with familiarity, like how you can read 21:00 as 9 without thinking about it


> like how you can read 21:00 as 9 without thinking about it

Well... in French you can totally say twenty-nine instead of just nine (although nine also works). I think that is pretty rare among languages but I'm not sure.


> I think that is pretty rare among languages but I'm not sure.

Not rare among the ones I know, you can do that all over the Nordics and in Germany. So from my perspective you think wrong.




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