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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 hours ago

Finnish is actually 9*10+2

Yhdeksänkymmentäkaksi

Yhdeksän = nine

Kymmentä = of ten

Kaksi = two

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 hours ago

Isn't it mostly 9*10+2? 9 * ty (implying 10) + 2.

Even german does that, although weirdly the way you can't just write down long numbers reasily one by one: Zwei (2) und ((and) neun- (9) -zig (*10)).

[–] [email protected] 17 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I'm actually impressed by this map. The French speaking part of Switzerland is not only differentiated from the German speaking part, it is also differently coloured than France, since Swiss French has more sensible numbers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

Is this a Michael Hobbes joke?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Note to self: For learning a scandinavian language - learn Swedish instead of Danish.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

If you learn swedish, you can speak danish. Just put a hot potato in your mouth

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Why do Danes all have a potato in their mouth?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

For good luck

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

That's four goddamn numbers in a row!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

French language uses math to speak numbers if anyone is wondering about France.

Edit: Apparently I wasn't precise enough for the dude below. It starts at 70 and ends at 99 every time you get to those numbers. De rien, tabarnak.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Not quite. They just have remnants of an old base 20 system that kicks in for specific numbers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Je le sais, je parle français .-.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Haha, nice. Sorry, I meant no offence, was just further explaining the weirdness of French numbers (I love that kind of shit in languages)

[–] [email protected] 26 points 20 hours ago (5 children)

That meme is so lame. 92 in Danish is two and a half fives. The 20 part is old-fashioned and literally nobody has used that since the 1800s.

2 and a half fives' twentieth = outdated cringe. 2 and a half fives = actually how it is said today.

It's still a friggin nightmare to get someone's Phone number verbally, though.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

That only makes it worse.

Two and a half fives = 12.5.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

More like 2 and half fives. Half five is our word for 90. So in essence we say 2 and 90 but the word 90 is half five.

80 is fours

70 is half fours

60 is threes

50 is half threes

40 is forty

30 is thirty

20 is twenty

10 is ten.

Oh and a 100 is a hundred. So I dunno what happened between 50 and 90, but I'm sure there is a funny story behind that somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

You're just digging yourself and Denmark into deeper hole. It's fucked up and you know it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

I never claimed otherwise. I'm just tired that this 92 meme is using outdated language (or numbers rather) to make a point that may have been reasonable to make in the 1800s, but not today. Doesn't mean our number system is any less retarded today. If anything, I'm just adding on to the fact that Danes are notoriously lazy with the Danish language and will cut corners with all words and sentences the same way Americans cut corners when they chop everybody's name up into bite sized nicknames. For us, though, it's more like slurring at the end of a word and flat out ignoring letters that are very clearly there in the word.

Woe is the poor asshole who decides to immigrate here and attempts to learn the cancerous gargle that is our language.

That said, it is still the best language to curse in and when used in poetry, it can be downright majestic.

But yeah, our curses are superior to all words in the English language.

My favourite for life will always be kræftedme = cancer eat me - usually uttered in a sentence to underline how pissed off you are and how serious you are about being pissed off.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (3 children)

Dane here. No one actively thinks of 90 (halvfems, 2 and a half fives) as a mathematical expression. Is is just a word for 90. So we say 2+90 like Germany.

Would it have been nice if that word meant "9 tens", yes, but Danish is a just a stupid language where you have to learn a bunch of things by heart unfortunately.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Not Danish here... Isn't that 12.5?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago

No, in Danish the "half five" part means the same as "half past 4" on the clock: 4.5.

Then the part that most people omit nowadays, sindstyvende, means times 20.

(Half past 4) times 20 = 90.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

It's breaking my brain too, what is this cryptography lmao

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago

When you have to write down numbers, but the person reading you the numbers speaks slowly 💀

Them: "Two..."

Me: "2"

Them: "... and fifty"

Me: "... ~~2~~ - 52"

Them: "Six..."

Me: "6"

Them: "... and twenty."

Me: "~~6~~ - 26"

🫠

[–] [email protected] 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Denmark = outdated cringe

Just kidding neighbor, I love you all

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Let's grab a rød pølse and some surströmming

edit: evil combo of the year

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

I'll bring the kamelåså and we get the party started

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 28 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Ehh, i'm not giving France a pass either.

The answer to 100 - 8 should not be four twenties and a twelve. We're counting, not making change.

French counting is bunk. Way, Way, better then Denmark though apparently

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

Quatre-vingt douze isn’t incredibly onerous when you use it in practice.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 14 hours ago

Quatre-vingt dix huit or quatre-vingt dix neuf are definitely more of a mouthful and illustrate the point better.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 19 hours ago

We can also do 2+90 here in the UK. There's a nursery rhyme about "four and twenty blackbirds" that I think the kids are still learning.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 day ago (17 children)

For a real explanation of this watch this illuminating video.

TL;DW According to the perons, it's based on counting sheep and from base 20. 1 score = 20 sheep. 2 score = 40 sheep.
To get to 50, you have 2.5 score, but they don't say "two and a half". They are quite Germanic and say "halfway to 3" (Germans do this too). So, 50 = half three score.

The video also points out that English has (as the hodgepodge of a language it is) yet another remnant of Germanic languages: 13-19 are not "te(e)n-three to te(e)n-nine", but "three-te(e)n to nine-te(e)n", just like in German "drei-zehn bis neun-zehn".

It's quite easy to mock other languages, but there's always a reason for why things are the way they are. Think of Chesterton's fence.

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