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[–] Luccus@feddit.org 1 points 21 minutes 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)).

[–] slappypantsgo@lemm.ee 1 points 34 minutes ago

Is this a Michael Hobbes joke?

[–] schibutzu@lemm.ee 8 points 2 hours ago

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.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 2 hours ago

That's four goddamn numbers in a row!

[–] Enkrod@feddit.org 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] CherryBullets@lemmy.ca 13 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour 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.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] CherryBullets@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

Je le sais, je parle français .-.

[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 25 points 10 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2 and a half fives' twentieth = outdated cringe. 2 and a half fives = actually how it is said today.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.

[–] JacksonLamb@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

That only makes it worse.

Two and a half fives = 12.5.

[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 2 points 50 minutes ago

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.

[–] petersr@lemmy.world 11 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 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.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world -1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

How would you say trump is like Hitler? Do you have to describe the Holocaust in few words within a long ass German style word?

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 2 points 4 hours ago

Easy. We often use idioms for comparisons.

One old way would be: "Trump and Hitler are both 2/3 yards from one piece" which means "They're cut from the same (bad) fabric".

Fabric was cut in an old measurement"alen" which was 2 foot or 2/3 yards, so simply stating the length would be understood as fabric, similar to how everyone knows that a 2x4s is a piece of wood and such.

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Denmark = outdated cringe

Just kidding neighbor, I love you all

[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Let's grab a rød pølse and some surströmming

edit: evil combo of the year

[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 1 points 19 minutes ago

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

[–] 1337@lemmy.world 14 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] GoosLife@lemmy.world 5 points 4 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.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 5 points 4 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"

🫠

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

Exactly

Base 20, or "vigesimal".

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 5 points 9 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.

[–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 45 points 15 hours ago (2 children)
[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 27 points 13 hours ago (1 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

[–] Nariom@lemmy.world 8 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

the thing nobody mentions is that the 4x20 part became a word that just means 80 in people's mind, it kinda not literal anymore, but the Swiss and Belgian ways are still better (edit the 4x20+10 is similarly just 90)

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 4 points 11 hours ago

e a word that just means 80 in people’s mind, it kinda not literal anymore, but the Swiss and Belgian ways are still better (edit the 4x20+10 is s

And if it was 28 syllables, it would still be 80 in people's minds. But the words are still four twenty eight for what could easily just be nine eight.

I get it, but it is really inefficient for something as oft used as counting.

If it makes you feel better, English is full of crap like that which doesn't make any sense and I'll own that as a trash language :)

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[–] puppinstuff@lemmy.ca 16 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 6 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Yeah France is fine

[–] jwmgregory@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

hard agree i actually think france’s method of counting is pretty intuitive

[–] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 2 points 5 hours ago

Agreed. Fourscore and twelve just works (English used to use this, at least in formal speech and writing).

[–] ap10336@diaspodon.fr 8 points 14 hours ago

@ObviouslyNotBanana Ninety-two → Nine-ty-two → 9x10+2 :troll:

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 58 points 20 hours ago (16 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.

[–] HorreC@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

I just tried to say tentyfive like four times in a row and I couldnt speak for 20 seconds after that. Thank you.

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