3 ms·
Danish is worse, or at least as bad. Sixty is three twenties, so fifty is half three twenties. Eighty is four twenties, so seventy is half four twenties. Ninety
by hanche 4y ago
Danish is worse, or at least as bad. Sixty is three twenties, so fifty is half three twenties. Eighty is four twenties, so seventy is half four twenties. Ninety is half five twenties, but a hundred is just a hundred. Sanity, at last! (The twenties have been abbreviated over the years to just an -s ending, so sixty is “tres” and so on. But still …)
- oblio 4y ago> fifty is half three twenties I'm confused. Wouldn't that be... thirty? :-)
- hanche 4y agoI didn’t say it makes much sense. But it fits with how we talk about time in Norwegian and Danish both: When English speakers say half past five, we say half six. Which is a half hour before six. In the same way, I suppose half three twenties (halvtres in Danish) is short for half a twenty short of three twenties. So yes, there’s logic to this madness.