▲ 322 ▼ 70=sixty-ten / 80=four-twenties / 90= four-twenty-ten (thelemmy.club) submitted 3 weeks ago by laurenceOfSuburbia@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.world 156 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] BlaestEgnen@feddit.dk 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children) What's wrong about it? Halvfjerds, half fourth. Clearly that's seventy. But it's short for halvfjerdsindstyvende. Half fourth's in twenties. Yep that's seventy my friend permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] AEsheron@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 child) I assume the name refers to the fact that you are halfway to the fourth twenty from the third? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] BlaestEgnen@feddit.dk 1 point 3 weeks ago Yep, that's it permalink fedilink source parent [–] Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 child) When I learnt Danish the number system legit took me far longer than anything else xd, maths classes were certainly interesting. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Scrollone@feddit.it 1 point 3 weeks ago You learnt the reason why they call it that way, but Danes don't think that way. They just know that 60 is called tres, that's it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] AEsheron@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 child) I assume the name refers to the fact that you are halfway to the fourth twenty from the third? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] BlaestEgnen@feddit.dk 1 point 3 weeks ago Yep, that's it permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 child) When I learnt Danish the number system legit took me far longer than anything else xd, maths classes were certainly interesting. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Scrollone@feddit.it 1 point 3 weeks ago You learnt the reason why they call it that way, but Danes don't think that way. They just know that 60 is called tres, that's it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 1 point 3 weeks ago You learnt the reason why they call it that way, but Danes don't think that way. They just know that 60 is called tres, that's it. permalink fedilink source parent
