Comment on English may be a hot mess but at least we don't have to worry about this nonsense

TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Frozzie@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You know everytime your mention French number, there is always belgian or Swiss who will tell you :

  🇧🇪🇨🇭: 90+7

  ☝️🤓

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  • darkmogool@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    please… french swiss…

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• problematicPanther@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  what the actual fuck is wrong with you, denmark?

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  • FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    …whats not?

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    • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Cope hagen?

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    • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Aebleskiver.

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      • FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        apple slices…?

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• Moghul@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  While learning Danish I figured out that’s just the arcane incantation for the number. It’s language juju, and you just have to know that it be like it do. Yes, it’s syv og halvfems, but the reason behind it doesn’t matter anymore. The rest of the double digit numbers are a mess as well; 30 is tredive (three tens in old norse) but starting with 50 it’s this weird score (20) and half-to-score system.

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  • isthingoneventhis@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    When I first started learning my brain was desperately trying to make heads or tails of it and rationalize it somehow. And then I realized that was stupid, abandoned reason, and now I just utter these backwards ass numbers and we all nod and everyone is happy lol. Language is weird.

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• casmael@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  youtu.be/s-mOy8VUEBk?si=1dudvGSjUd9VI11D

  🇩🇰🫡

  It’s not easy running an isenkramstornunung when nobody remembers what anything is called

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  • quilan@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    An absolute classic that I watch every single time. Kamelåså!

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• MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I can’t stop giggling about the Danish way of saying that. Like, I don’t even understand how that’s 90? LMAO.

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• gmtom@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s not real. I refuse to believe that.

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  • nilaus@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It is, but we just say seven and half fives these days. Everybody knows the twenty are implied…

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• Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think Finnish would be

  🇫🇮: 9•10+7

  Nine-tenths seven

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  • KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Same for Japanese

    🇯🇵: 9•10+7

    kyuu juu nana 九十七

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• Raikin@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Btw french Switzerland just uses 90+7 as well, so anyone who learns french, just tell them you’re learning Swiss French.

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