• Nangijala@feddit.dk
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    That meme is so lame. 92 in Danish is two and a half fives. The 20 part is old-fashioned and literally nobody has used that since the 1800s.

    2 and a half fives’ twentieth = outdated cringe. 2 and a half fives = actually how it is said today.

    It’s still a friggin nightmare to get someone’s Phone number verbally, though.

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      Dane here. No one actively thinks of 90 (halvfems, 2 and a half fives) as a mathematical expression. Is is just a word for 90. So we say 2+90 like Germany.

      Would it have been nice if that word meant “9 tens”, yes, but Danish is a just a stupid language where you have to learn a bunch of things by heart unfortunately.

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        How would you say trump is like Hitler? Do you have to describe the Holocaust in few words within a long ass German style word?

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          Easy. We often use idioms for comparisons.

          One old way would be: “Trump and Hitler are both 2/3 yards from one piece” which means “They’re cut from the same (bad) fabric”.

          Fabric was cut in an old measurement"alen" which was 2 foot or 2/3 yards, so simply stating the length would be understood as fabric, similar to how everyone knows that a 2x4s is a piece of wood and such.

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        No, in Danish the “half five” part means the same as “half past 4” on the clock: 4.5.

        Then the part that most people omit nowadays, sindstyvende, means times 20.

        (Half past 4) times 20 = 90.

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          When you have to write down numbers, but the person reading you the numbers speaks slowly 💀

          Them: “Two…”

          Me: “2”

          Them: “… and fifty”

          Me: “… 2 - 52”

          Them: “Six…”

          Me: “6”

          Them: “… and twenty.”

          Me: “6 - 26”

          🫠