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Or Danish where 90 is halvfems or (5 - 1/2) * 20
by ginko 5y ago
Or Danish where 90 is halvfems or (5 - 1/2) * 20
- hjek 5y ago... which is especially embarrassing because they got rid of the problem in Swedish and Norwegian.
- daneel_w 5y agoWith one small exception in Swedish. We still do it backwards for some numbers in the 10-19 range. 13 = tretton (three ten), 14 = fjorton (four ten), and so on.
- Symbiote 5y ago95 could be spoken as "fifteen and four score" in English, and I'm told my great grandfather did this, though people thought he was old fashioned. It would not be the Danish "five and half the fifth score" though. This is crazy.