By the numbers...

[khiemtran]

Okay, so "sixty" is kuusikymmentä ("six of ten"), but in "sixty cent stamp" it's kuudenkymmenten. Likewise, "two hundred" is kaksisataa, but a two hundred euro note is a kahdensadan euron seteli.

So, what's the bet there's some sort of special case for numbers when they act as adjectives (or something similar)? One that also affects every digit... Hmm. The fun thing about travel is that, after a while, there's nothing left that phase you.

In other news, I've just discovered that if I play on the Finnish side in Il-2 Sturmovik:1946, I can hear Finnish voices from the rest of my parvi. This will be useful if I need to tell someone to attack the bombers or to request permission to land.

Comments

[carl-allery.livejournal.com]

I have been thoroughly prepared, since the age of seven, to tell people to raise their hands, get out - of where ever (in the comics and films, it was usually train carriages), and to shout warnings of spitfire attacks ... in German. I actually learnt to count to 10 at the age of 5 from the daughter of a wartime messerschmitt pilot we met in Italy on holiday. Such skills are not to be under-rated. ;)

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

Ja, das ist so. Although I think I have a awkward conversation coming up now that Liem's started noticing things like swastikas on tailplanes in some of my old aircraft books ("Is that the German emblem?").