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List of words that the Kaiser took away in nineteen tickety two.
These read like Terry Pratchett came up with them
Side note: I can’t wait to call myself twenty-dickety years old.
I was thinking the same thing! He actually didn't come up with those - his were Yan tan tethera :) The picture is hexadecimal if you are interested like I was!
My grandad used to count sheep like that. "Yan, tan, tethere, methera... etc until he got to 20, then put a stone in his pocket and start counting again
I never understood this because how many sheep would run past when I'm looking for a stone on the ground to pick up to mark 20?
I use the annteen, frosty-five, annty-four system.
I’ll be looking at a hex dump and going, what’s this ernsty-bet doing here?
Edit: I have been informed this is known as the Magnuson method.
This sounds silly, but for us programmers do you understand how convenient this would be?
"one bitey" is a good one to keep in pocket for whenever you see 8bit integers.
oh hell yeah. you telling me THIS could be our measuring system but instead we chose cowardice?
"eighteen, nineteen, abbleteen, b-"
"Wait! Did you just say abbleteen!? Wtf is that? Did you mean abteen? You can just make up words, you dumbass. Abbleteen... ppft what a loser."
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