• @NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
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      5 months ago

      IDK about english-speaking places, but in Hebrew we’d say “meter 70”. I never thought about whether this is strictly grammatical in Hebrew, but by the descriptive approach I guess it must be because it’s commonly used.

      Edit: but it doesn’t really work when you want to write it as a number so you’d have to write either 1.70m or 170 cm (if you prefer 1m 70cm that’s fine but it’s two numbers)

    • @srecko@lemm.ee
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      15 months ago

      In my language 100 is just tree letters so most of the people just say 170 insteand of meter 70 because its shorter