1y ago

How to say the number 92

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1y ago

How to say the number 92

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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.
- Yeah, this isn't an excuse.
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.
- Germany is fine, but France is just dumb and no clue how Denmark got there
- Yeah.. This is not the right way Danes say it.
  It's not tooghalvfemsindstyvende
  It's more like toårhalfæms. Nobody says sindstyvende, only people who don't know the language...

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.
- 23/28/09 pure chaos
  I prefer to sort my dates descending.
  28/23/09 = 28 Sept 2023
  11/09/01 = >!Jan 9 2011!<
- But it makes no sense to us because we also say it the way we put it ("28 Septembre 2023", Aka 28/09/2023)...

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.
  
  Five and fourty thank you very much.
  Otherwise you'd be saying €5,40.

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