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[–] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 105 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 92 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Should be β€œoneteen onety one”

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 13 points 11 months ago

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

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 59 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] Assman@sh.itjust.works 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] mycatiskai@lemmy.one 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Make that four

willing to try if you are...

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

number 5 reporting in

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[–] drre@feddit.de 4 points 11 months ago
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[–] Devouring@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Whatisawaffle@kbin.social 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Everyone's focused on 1111.

Me: Twelvedy Twooty Two

[–] PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Agreed, but wait until you see this

[–] strawberrysocial@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] kadotux@sopuli.xyz 8 points 11 months ago

Or oneteen onety one

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[–] Smoregoose@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 11 months ago

Eleven eleven CE

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 42 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 5 points 11 months 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.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago

could you please repeat that?

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If anything, it's oneteen onety one.

[–] Colalextrast@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Oneteen Oneteen

Edit: after doing a bit of research, I'm changing this to Firsteen Firsteen

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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 8 points 11 months ago

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

[–] SleepwalkingMan@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago
[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 6 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Wouldn't eleventeen be 21?

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

Should be oneteen onety one.

[–] DeidraTheMad@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months 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 11 months ago

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

[–] creation7758@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nah. That's twoty one. Which is followed by twoty two. Just like 44 is fourty four. (don't tell me it's spelled forty I know)

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[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 6 points 11 months ago

1221: eleventeen eleventy eleven

[–] theletterw@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months 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 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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".

[–] ARk@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

ONE ONE ONE ONE

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

actually it's 10001010111

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

Onteen Onteen?

[–] asciimage@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Beldarofremulak@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Levin Uh'Levin

[–] pyrflie@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

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

One eleventy one.

[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] _Gandalf_the_Black_@feddit.de 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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.)

[–] lunaticneko@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

1999: bizarre summer

[–] Bipta@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] _Gandalf_the_Black_@feddit.de 3 points 11 months ago

Eleventyleven

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

One eleventh one

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