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I really wish the danish numbers had been reformed. It is a drag to communicate numbers verbally and then write them down. It is very prone to errors since the
by drblah 9y ago
I really wish the danish numbers had been reformed. It is a drag to communicate numbers verbally and then write them down. It is very prone to errors since the verbal number sequence is so strange.
Exampel: 54. It is pronounced: fire-og-halv-treds (four-and-half-threes.) As you might notice, the spoken sequence is backwards compared to the written number.
this gets even more confusing when saying a number above 100. 136 is et-hundrede-og-seks-og-treidve. (One-hundreds-and-six-and-threes).
- ivanche 9y agoAnd not only in Danish, unfortunately. In German it is vierundfünfzig (four and fifty) and einhundertsechsunddreißig (one hundred six and thirty). Crazy!
- KozmoNau7 9y agoEven worse, it's actually four-and-half-three-twenty or in plainer terms four, plus three and a half twenties.
- Bromskloss 9y agoLet's not make everything streamlined, bland, and the same everywhere! Let's keep our respective characters, idiosyncrasies, that were passed down from our forefathers. Let it show when you travel from one country to the next!