Posted 04/04/2012 01:56 am
There are slight variations to the way numbers are written in Germany and Central Europe. The '2' shown here was occasionally seem in Germany at this time. Hence the confusion between the '2' and the '9'. In this case, it is a '2'.
Many people write a '7', with a horizontal bar through it, like a back to front 'F'. I pronounce such a numeral as a 'FEVEN'. The reason why this style is common in Germany is that the '1' quite often has an angled bar at the top of the character, that can be confused with a standard '7', therefore the '7' numeral gets the additional horizintal bar, to distinguish it from the German '1'.
Most people simply eliminate the angled bar from the '1', and the horizontal bar from the '7', to get the more commonly seen numeral characters, without the confusion.
Many people write a '7', with a horizontal bar through it, like a back to front 'F'. I pronounce such a numeral as a 'FEVEN'. The reason why this style is common in Germany is that the '1' quite often has an angled bar at the top of the character, that can be confused with a standard '7', therefore the '7' numeral gets the additional horizintal bar, to distinguish it from the German '1'.
Most people simply eliminate the angled bar from the '1', and the horizontal bar from the '7', to get the more commonly seen numeral characters, without the confusion.
Edited by sel_69l
04/04/2012 02:31 am
04/04/2012 02:31 am
