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[-] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 111 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Just wait until you look into French numbers.

How different languages say 97:

🇬🇧: 90+7 (ok, there is some jank in English numbers - 13-19 are in line with the Germanic pronunciation, i.e. pronounced "right to left", as a weird hold-over from the more Germanic Old English)

🇪🇸: 90+7

🇩🇪: 7+90

🇫🇷: 4x20+10+7

And if you think that's bad, the Danes actually make the French look sane...

🇩🇰: 7+(-½+5)x20

Even Danes generally don't really know why their numbers are like that, they just remember and go along with it.

[-] Frozzie@lemmy.world 56 points 10 months ago

You know everytime your mention French number, there is always belgian or Swiss who will tell you :

🇧🇪🇨🇭: 90+7

☝️🤓

[-] darkmogool@feddit.de 9 points 10 months ago

please... french swiss....

[-] Moghul@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago

While learning Danish I figured out that's just the arcane incantation for the number. It's language juju, and you just have to know that it be like it do. Yes, it's syv og halvfems, but the reason behind it doesn't matter anymore. The rest of the double digit numbers are a mess as well; 30 is tredive (three tens in old norse) but starting with 50 it's this weird score (20) and half-to-score system.

[-] isthingoneventhis@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

When I first started learning my brain was desperately trying to make heads or tails of it and rationalize it somehow. And then I realized that was stupid, abandoned reason, and now I just utter these backwards ass numbers and we all nod and everyone is happy lol. Language is weird.

[-] casmael@lemm.ee 16 points 10 months ago

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[-] quilan@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

An absolute classic that I watch every single time. Kamelåså!

[-] casmael@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

I don’t know what he gave me, but it was wrong 🤷🏻‍♂️

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[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 10 points 10 months ago

I can't stop giggling about the Danish way of saying that. Like, I don't even understand how that's 90? LMAO.

[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

That's not real. I refuse to believe that.

[-] nilaus@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

It is, but we just say seven and half fives these days. Everybody knows the twenty are implied...

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I think Finnish would be

🇫🇮: 9•10+7

Nine-tens seven

[-] BakerBagel@midwest.social 10 points 10 months ago

Where do you think nine-ty in English comes from?

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I think it comes from nine-tens. But if you check, that commenter didn't write it so.

[-] KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Same for Japanese

🇯🇵: 9•10+7

九(kyuu) 十(juu) 七(nana)

Also, similar to English, 20 does not follow the pattern but instead has its own word. (Still written as 2•10 though)

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[-] neutron@thelemmy.club 1 points 10 months ago

Meanwhile in CJK languages we just chill and say 9 x 10 + 7. Why doesn't everyone do that?

[-] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I guess "ninety" likely stems from "nine tens", so I guess English isn't far off

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