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minus-squareslazer2au@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-21 month agoJust wait until you find out how the Dutch count.
minus-squarev_krishna@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·edit-21 month 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-up3·1 month 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-up1·1 month 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-up2·1 month 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-squareViatorOmnium@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-21 month agoSo does Danish, they just add the weird math on top because they had to beat both French and German.
minus-squareBaŝto@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-21 month 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-squareKnock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoEn means “one”. - OK Og means “and.” - OK Halvfems means “ninety” (short for four and a half times twenty). - WTF
minus-squareViatorOmnium@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month 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.
So does Danish, they just add the weird math on top because they had to beat both French and German.
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”.
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