cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/3849611
Denmark what the fuck are you doing
| # | 🇩🇰 |
|---|---|
| 1 | en |
| 2 | to |
| 3 | tre |
| 4 | fire |
| 5 | fem |
| 6 | seks |
| 7 | syv |
| 8 | otte |
| 9 | ni |
| 10 | ti |
| 11 | elleve |
| 12 | tolv |
| 13 | tretten |
| 14 | fjorten |
| 15 | femten |
| 16 | seksten |
| 17 | sytten |
| 18 | atten |
| 19 | nitten |
| 20 | tyve |
| 21 | enogtyve (oneandtwenty) |
| 22 | toogtyve (twoandtwenty) |
| 30 | tredive |
| 40 | fyrre |
| 50 | halvtreds |
| 60 | tres (threes[core]) |
| 70 | halvfjerds (½fourths[core]) |
| 80 | firs (fours[core]) |
| 90 | halvfems (½fifths[core]) |
| 92 | tooghalvfems (twoand½fifths[core]) |
| 100 | hundred |
The 4½ = ●●●●◖ = [four +] ½fifth is not unique to Danish. In Czech, we say „čtvrt na osm“ (quarter to eight), „půl osmé“ (half of eighth) and „tři čtvrtě na osm“ (¾ to eight) to mean 19:15, 19:30 and 19:45, respectively, so I kinda get it.
Similarly, in German, 🕢=„halb acht“.
And ninety, halvfems, short for halvfemsindstyve or halv-fem-sinds-tyve, means “fifth half times twenty”, or “four scores plus half of the fifth score” [4½ * 20].
I think the Britons used scores as well for some time.
Germany and France are already stupid, but Denmark combines them and makes it even worse.
I think the German solution works better for the German language. ‘neunzigundzwei’ sounds worse than ‘zweiundneunzig’ or at least less flowy. But I’m obv biased by being German lol and this is just one example.
I think that’s just because you’re used to it.
I am German too and it would feel weird, but our way of saying it is really weird, when considered.
Especially if you add a hundred.
137
One-hundred seven and thirty
It’s just uselessly jumping around.
Yeah, I think we’re just biased. If it would have been always the other way around, we probably would think it’s the flowy way to say it xD
I’m Norwegian and grew up in one of the yellow belts. I use the two ways of saying numbers interchangably. There are only small parts of Norway people might get mildly confused if I said two and ninety instead of ninetytwo.
If German was to start counting the other way wouldn’t it be neunzigzwei and not neunzigundzwei?
Why not ‘neunzigzwei’? Just omit the ‘und’.
After all it’s ‘ninety-two’ in English.
2² x 23
Prime factoring is the way
There’s an interesting nuance for Romanian. While talking formally, “Noua zeci si doi” (9 10s and 2) is perfectly fine, in informal speech most people just say “Noua-s doi” (9 'n 2).
And then all Germans France and Denmark will complain when people in the US use 09/28/23 which is the same order used for Sept 9th 2023 instead of 28/09/23 which backwards from the most logical of putting the most significant number first and the least significant number last 23/28/09.
I was pretty convinced this was a joke until I got to the comments.
Nope it’s so damn annoying in the Netherlands having to say 45 as five fourty.
