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minus-squareslazer2au@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoJust wait until you find out how the Dutch count.
minus-squarev_krishna@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 months agoDutch tens are all pretty “normal” do you mean Danish? (Danish uses a x20 math for 60 and 80, but then 50, 70, and 90 are 2.5*20, 3.5*20, 4.5*20, except they dropped the “times 20” in the words over time)
minus-squareHapankaali@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoDutch timekeeping, on the other hand… What time is it? Why, ten before half 4, of course. A very normal and sane way of telling the time.
minus-squareBlaestEgnen@feddit.dklinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoThere’s so many normal ways to tell the time in Danish, so your above example does occur in spoken language
minus-squareslazer2au@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoThe Dutch say the final number before the second last. 23 in Dutch is pronounced 3 and 20, 64 is 4 and 60. Annoying AF.
minus-squareBaŝto@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoEnglish still does this for numbers <20 Germanic languages also have fun names for 11 and 12, which basically mean “one left over” and “two left over”.
minus-squareViatorOmnium@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-22 months agoSo does Danish, they just add the weird math on top because they had to beat both French and German.
minus-squareKnock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoEn means “one”. - OK Og means “and.” - OK Halvfems means “ninety” (short for four and a half times twenty). - WTF
minus-squareViatorOmnium@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoWhat’s wrong with “five hundred five and fifty thousand five hundred five and fifty”? /s
Just wait until you find out how the Dutch count.
Dutch tens are all pretty “normal” do you mean Danish? (Danish uses a x20 math for 60 and 80, but then 50, 70, and 90 are 2.5*20, 3.5*20, 4.5*20, except they dropped the “times 20” in the words over time)
Dutch timekeeping, on the other hand…
What time is it? Why, ten before half 4, of course. A very normal and sane way of telling the time.
There’s so many normal ways to tell the time in Danish, so your above example does occur in spoken language
The Dutch say the final number before the second last. 23 in Dutch is pronounced 3 and 20, 64 is 4 and 60.
Annoying AF.
English still does this for numbers <20
Germanic languages also have fun names for 11 and 12, which basically mean “one left over” and “two left over”.
So does Danish, they just add the weird math on top because they had to beat both French and German.
En means “one”. - OK
Og means “and.” - OK
Halvfems means “ninety” (short for four and a half times twenty). - WTF
What’s wrong with “five hundred five and fifty thousand five hundred five and fifty”? /s