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[–] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 103 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] v_krishna@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

No more time to tell how, this is the season of what / Now is the time of returning with our thought

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 91 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Should be β€œoneteen onety one”

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

🎢So tonight I'm gonna party like it's oneteen onety one.🎢

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Eleven hundred eleven, am I the only one who'd actually say it that way?

[–] Assman@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] mycatiskai@lemmy.one 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I make three, anyone else agree?

Edit: added above this. Orig: There is at least eleven hundred and eleven of us but if we reply one at a time this is going to be a long chain.

[–] asexualchangeling@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Make that four

willing to try if you are...

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

number 5 reporting in

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Two wugs, right?

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[–] Devouring@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah eleventeen would be 111, which coincidentally is the same as tenteen one

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No, eleventeen is 21. Eleventy is 110.

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

i now realize the errors of my ways. how could i have been so foolish

[–] Whatisawaffle@kbin.social 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Everyone's focused on 1111.

Me: Twelvedy Twooty Two

[–] PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Agreed, but wait until you see this

[–] strawberrysocial@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It would be eleven eleven if it's following the pattern, is it not

[–] kadotux@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

Or oneteen onety one

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[–] Smoregoose@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 year ago

Eleven eleven CE

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The hundreds are implied. It's fine to call it eleven hundred eleven.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If the hundreds are implied, then it's just eleven eleven.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 5 points 1 year ago

Yes. It's eleven hundred and eleven, so you can say that William the 2nd inherited Puglia in eleven eleven. He was only 16, so his mother Adela was the actual ruler from eleven eleven to eleven fourteen.

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[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If anything, it's oneteen onety one.

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Isn't it "eleventy eleven"? I'm sure It is if youre Pooh...or Tigger...

And if you're expecting English to be totally consistent you're going to have a bad time.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

To paraphrase Ron Swanson, everything before 1776 was a mistake.

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Wouldn't eleventeen be 21?

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Should be oneteen onety one.

[–] DeidraTheMad@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The 4 year old in our house consistently adds in 'eleventeen' in her counting, so we all think it's a real number now lol

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Words exist because they are used, so it can be a "real" word within your family-lect =)

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[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

1221: eleventeen eleventy eleven

[–] ARk@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

ONE ONE ONE ONE

[–] theletterw@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember counting using onety-one etc. before I started kindergarten πŸ˜† no idea how I still remember that but I do.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

tbf it probably would have been that if there wasn't a period where we counted a lot of stuff in twelves and twenties, that left special words for 11, 12, and 20, with 12 and 20 especially getting the superspecial words "dozen" and "score".

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

actually it's 10001010111

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Onteen Onteen?

[–] asciimage@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Levin Uh'Levin

[–] pyrflie@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

One eleventy one.

[–] Bipta@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Eleventyleven

[–] lunaticneko@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

1999: bizarre summer

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

One eleventh one

[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honest question: in German, do you say "elf elf"?

[–] _Gandalf_the_Black_@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Awesome! If I ever make an anime, it's going to be called "Elf Hunter Elf"!

(edit: I've already planned the basic story arc and 4 main characters.)

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