• Kayn
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    45 months ago

    Not language directly, but rather force of habit.

    It sounds wrong to you because you grew up saying it another way.

    There is no one way that objectively makes more sense than the other, each language simply has its own habits. If everyone in Germany said “drei Punkt eins vier”, it wouldn’t sound awful to you at all.

    • @smiletolerantly
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      25 months ago

      Sure, but if everyone said it differently, than that would also be part of the language. I don’t disagree with you, I just think you’ve described language (in this context) 😄