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petersr@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoDane here. No one actively thinks of 90 (halvfems, 2 and a half fives) as a mathematical expression. Is is just a word for 90. 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 which sucks.
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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 3 weeks 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.
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ah yes! I understand the culture fully now!