So instead of "a hundred and ninety six", they remove the "and", and they've just been walking around saying things like "a hundred ninety six" for years.

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's worse than that - I'd actually say "one ninety six".

But in my head I always read the comm name as "one nine six".

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 1 points 3 days ago

To be fair, I probably say things like "one ninety six" or "one nine six" when referring to measurements.

i.e. how far is it between those two? "2... fifty four... point... 3". I guess there's a sort of silent "metres" "centimetres" etc in there.

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