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in my country you read and speak numbers 97 like 'seven and ninety'. this is normal.. :p aslong as we dont base our endianess on how french pronounce or read n

in my country you read and speak numbers 97 like 'seven and ninety'. this is normal.. :p aslong as we dont base our endianess on how french pronounce or read nrs i think we can work with it. that being said, i am for ISO notation if you want to order something in a list. year, month, day seems logical in this case as it will easily sort chronologically. i dont see another real reason why one would be better than another.

lloeki 2y ago
> aslong as we dont base our endianess on how french pronounce or read If you're annoyed by French numbers (which come from Gauls counting in 20s) try numbers in Danish.
- azalemeth 2y ago
  I am trying to learn Danish. I cannot agree with this enough. Consider "halvtreds," the Danish word for 50. A reasonable person might expect it to mean "half-three" based on pattern recognition and the fact that tre is three. But no! It's actually a compressed version of "halvtredsindstyve," meaning "half-third-times-twenty" or (2.5 × 20). This continues with "tres" (60), "halvfjerds" (70), and "firs" (80)—all using a vigesimal system that, if you studied French, seems reasonable. Except, well, the Danes don't properly sanitize their inputs. "femoghalvfjerds" (75) translates to "five-and-half-fourth-times-twenty," combining decimal and vigesimal systems with zero regard for foreigners...
  - lloeki 2y ago
    > "halvtredsindstyve," meaning "half-third-times-twenty" or (2.5 × 20). And you even took a shortcut there, AIUI it's "three-minus-a-half" (and that many "twenty", vigesimal as you said) for the "2.5", kinda like roman numeral `IX` is nine ("ten minus one" because the `I` is before the `X`) so it's really an oddball mix of multiple ways to count. (Source: my wife had a go with learning Danish as well, and we spent a little time going down that rabbit hole. I didn't even try, I'm sticking to easy things like Japanese)

lloeki 2y ago

> aslong as we dont base our endianess on how french pronounce or read If you're annoyed by French numbers (which come from Gauls counting in 20s) try numbers in Danish.

azalemeth 2y ago
I am trying to learn Danish. I cannot agree with this enough. Consider "halvtreds," the Danish word for 50. A reasonable person might expect it to mean "half-three" based on pattern recognition and the fact that tre is three. But no! It's actually a compressed version of "halvtredsindstyve," meaning "half-third-times-twenty" or (2.5 × 20). This continues with "tres" (60), "halvfjerds" (70), and "firs" (80)—all using a vigesimal system that, if you studied French, seems reasonable. Except, well, the Danes don't properly sanitize their inputs. "femoghalvfjerds" (75) translates to "five-and-half-fourth-times-twenty," combining decimal and vigesimal systems with zero regard for foreigners...
- lloeki 2y ago
  > "halvtredsindstyve," meaning "half-third-times-twenty" or (2.5 × 20). And you even took a shortcut there, AIUI it's "three-minus-a-half" (and that many "twenty", vigesimal as you said) for the "2.5", kinda like roman numeral `IX` is nine ("ten minus one" because the `I` is before the `X`) so it's really an oddball mix of multiple ways to count. (Source: my wife had a go with learning Danish as well, and we spent a little time going down that rabbit hole. I didn't even try, I'm sticking to easy things like Japanese)