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Originally posted by ChuckElias
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Originally posted by BktBallRef
The mind processes "twenty three" much better than "two, three." And if I'm not mistaken, that's the method the NFHS Officials Manual suggests.
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I took a quick look through my manual and it just says to report the number. It doesn't say whether to use "twenty-three" or "two-three". But my manual is all screwed up by IAABO's color charts and stuff. So I don't know if the straight FED manual says anything differently.
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I'm on the side of reporting it as "twenty-three". It's a lot more natural and far easier to process by the listener(as others have said). Why would anyone ever say "twenty-three" for any other usage if it were more natural?
With "two" "three", you could miss either half and not have a clue that anything was amiss. With "twenty-three", there's a high probabililty that more will follow the "twenty".
In fact "two" "three" is not A number. It's two numbers.
While we're talking about reporting: color first! Then number. The scorer is going to want to know which page to look on before they need to find the line. With number first, they must remember the number until after the color is given, find the correct page, then retrieve the number from the memory banks, and then record the foul...increasing the likelihood of them getting the number wrong or forgetting it.