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bhaak on Aug 31, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why are there 5280 feet in a mile? (2009)

Not confusing to a native speaker :-)

But yes, that's exactly how you would say it in German. There might be some part of the brain reserved to parse that sentence as "I'm (one) (four and 80)" but this doesn't feel weird or confusing at all.

Telephone numbers on the other hand are more confusing. Luckily you don't need to say them out loud anymore these days.

lsinger on Aug 31, 2020 [–]

I’d say “one eighty-four” but of course the problem is that in german we mix up the order of the tens and ones.

And in fact so does English — it’s twenty-four but fif-teen (five ten, not ten five). In german we do that until 99 (nine and ninety).

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