>>16729380>>16731044Chinese coworkers have told me that they think it's due to how they express numbers in their language using consistent rules. English is full of all manner of weird exceptions and quirks. What the fuck is eleven? And why do teen suffixes exist? What happened to the letter 'u' in Forty?
In Chinese, and apparently many other Asian languages, eleven is something closer to 'one ten one' instead of having its own special word. While English speaking kids are struggling with twelve, Asians are learning about long scale million.