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70=sixty-ten / 80=four-twenties / 90= four-twenty-ten (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by laurenceOfSuburbia@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.world

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[–] v_krishna@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Dutch tens are all pretty "normal" do you mean Danish? (Danish uses a x20 math for 60 and 80, but then 50, 70, and 90 are 2.5*20, 3.5*20, 4.5*20, except they dropped the "times 20" in the words over time)

[–] Hapankaali@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Dutch timekeeping, on the other hand...

What time is it? Why, ten before half 4, of course. A very normal and sane way of telling the time.

[–] BlaestEgnen@feddit.dk 1 points 6 days ago

There's so many normal ways to tell the time in Danish, so your above example does occur in spoken language

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The Dutch say the final number before the second last. 23 in Dutch is pronounced 3 and 20, 64 is 4 and 60.

Annoying AF.

[–] basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

English still does this for numbers <20

Germanic languages also have fun names for 11 and 12, which basically mean "one left over" and "two left over".

[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

So does Danish, they just add the weird math on top because they had to beat both French and German.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

En means "one". - OK

Og means "and." - OK

Halvfems means "ninety" (short for four and a half times twenty). - WTF