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Originally Posted by Cooney
To prevent this, people will use a dot to make it continuous, thus keeping it on one line?
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That's what I meant. Some French may do that. I for one prefer to use no separator at all if I want to be sure that a split won't happen in a text, for example: 123456 (instead of 123 456)
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Would folks look at me strangely on the streets of Paris if I used "nonante-sept" instead of "quatre-vingt dix-sept?"
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They'll think that you're a Belgian or, because of your American accent, that you learnt French in Belgium. And they'll surely smile about it because it's always funny for a French to hear those numbers in the Belgian way
. It's never said that way by a French!
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Originally Posted by Cooney
I'm sure I would have been horribly confused had I run across un billion and not realized it is a thousand times bigger in French than in English :-)
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That's quite confusing indeed!