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"Four twenties and ten" is better than the Danish "five minus a half, times twenty".
by cperciva 11mo ago
"Four twenties and ten" is better than the Danish "five minus a half, times twenty".
- Waterluvian 11mo agoThat is so cursed. I love it!
- card_zero 11mo agoGood grief, it gets worse. It's half third [ordinal] times twenty, ½ #3 × 20.
- rkomorn 11mo agoBut the history of why we stuck to four-twenties sort of makes it worse. We were allegedly headed to sanity but l'Academie was like "actually let's stick to soixante-dix, quatre-vingt, and quatre-vingt-dix".