# Vietnamese translation needed please **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 30, 2012, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vietnamese-translation-needed-please/639322 "2012-10-30T14:02:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vietnamese-translation-needed-please/639322/1 "2012-10-30T14:02:41Z")
hu+o+'ng ta^y ze^ro^ chi’n ba?y bo^'n mu+o+i ta’m . kho^ng mu+o+`i bo^'n It should probably say “West” and then a bunch of numbers. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vietnamese-translation-needed-please/639322/2 "2012-10-30T14:41:51Z")
Is the period a decimal point? I get “west 0 9 7 48 . 0 14” ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vietnamese-translation-needed-please/639322/3 "2012-10-30T18:00:41Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > Is the period a decimal point? > > I get “west 0 9 7 48 . 0 14” Yep, that ought to work. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vietnamese-translation-needed-please/639322/4 "2012-10-30T18:00:47Z")
> [@UncleRojelio](#): > > hu+o+'ng ta^y ze^ro^ chi’n ba?y bo^'n mu+o+i ta’m . kho^ng mu+o+`i bo^'n > > It should probably say “West” and then a bunch of numbers. Thanks! Hng tây is west. The numbers are: chín (9) by (7) and bn mi tám (48). Không is zero, mi bn is fourteen. [edit] auto correct really did a number on my reply :mad: [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vietnamese-translation-needed-please/639322/5 "2012-10-30T18:09:50Z")
Hmm, I don’t know whether it’s auto correct or the stupid tapatalk app choking on my Vietnamese characters. Chín by bn mi tám. Không mi bn. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vietnamese-translation-needed-please/639322/6 "2012-10-30T18:12:32Z")
Chín bảy bốn mươi tám. Không mười bốn. There we go, it was tapatalk not accepting the viet alphabet. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vietnamese-translation-needed-please/639322/7 "2012-10-30T18:15:13Z")
Never thought about it before, but mười bốn is ambiguous isn’t it? Could be 14 or 1, 4. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vietnamese-translation-needed-please/639322/8 "2012-10-30T18:37:59Z")
It could be ten - four but not one - four. Mười bốn good buddy 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vietnamese-translation-needed-please/639322/9 "2012-10-30T18:39:51Z")
No, but could be 14 or 10, 4. It isn’t any more ambiguous than say, twenty-one in English, which could be 21 or 20, 1. Either would said with a pause if it were supposed to be two numbers.