Counting to twenty

 Ishaan asks me to count his reps as he exercises.

Just to irritate him, every day, i count to twenty in a different language. Predictably, he gets irritated. And warns me: If you want to be in my exercise room, you will only count in English or Hindi.

Insights you get while counting to twenty in English and Hindi.

In English, scores of something is a lot of something.

In Hindi, सैकड़ों means a lot of something.

The meaning of these words:

Score: 20

सैकड़ा: 20

In both these languages, "a lot of" is a multiple of 20. Not ten. Not 100. 20.

Why??