In Turkey, our numbers are 7 digit excluding area codes. If you're calling within your city you tell the number as ### ## ## If it is an inter-city call, you dial 0*** ### ## ## where *** is the city code. Mobile numbers also have three digit codes like they are different cities. Finally, if you dial into Turkey from abroad, you dial +90 *** ### ## ## But when I'm abroad, or telling the number to somebody in English, I tell it digit by digit.
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 11:32 PM, Pander <pan...@users.sourceforge.net>wrote: > For the thread that could be a mailing list on its own: > > I've noticed a funny effect on reading out numbers in different > languages. I'm from the Netherlands and here we say 'eight-and-twenty' > (achtentwintig) for the number 28. In English, you'd say twenty-eight. > This reverse reading is also in German, but not in French. It differs > from language to language. > > After spending half a year in an English speaking country, I noticed > that after I came back I had difficulties writing down numbers like this > when someone said them to me. This audio-to-written-conversion task was > difficult for my brain since it was confused whether to use the English > or Dutch reading. I experienced this not only with telephone numbers but > also when writing down numbers from laboratory test in university when > someone else would read out the measurements of the devices. > > However, paying in a shop when someone would read out the price of > something is not a problem at all. I asked more people that stayed > abroad for a longer period of time where a language is spoken that also > interchanges the reading of the numbers, if they had the same challenges > and some did. > > So when someone says to me, my (eight digit) telephone number is > twenty-eight thirty-four ninety-seven fifty-four, for me, this is not > brain friendly and usually I asked them to read it out like two eight, > etcetera. However, when I have to remember a short number of four > digits, like a postcode, e.g. twenty-four ninety-five, I have no > problem, because this is mapped into the money domain, just like a price > of something. The "tell sell" doctrine. ;) > > Do some of you have the same experience? > > I would like to suggest not to use this in reading out telephone > numbers, even though this might be your national way of writing/saying > these things. Usually there is not a sound information ergonomic reason > behind it. More the history of how the numbers grew larger in a certain > country. > > The brain is perfectly capable of remembering longer groups of digits. > Take for example > > 2314 7869 > > this is faster and easier processed by the brain than > > 23 14 78 69 > > Regards, > > Pander > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > -- --------------------------------------------------------- Atilla Filiz Eindhoven University of Technology Embedded Systems, Master's Programme --------------------------------------------------------
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