I don’t want to hear shit about what order we write numbers in from a continent where numbers include one hundred nine and thirty to mean 139, or three twenties ten and nine for 79

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you're so mad at Fr*nch and German numbers, don't look up Danish numbers. Unless you can guess what "five and half five's". Did you guess 95? Why would you?

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How‽

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 6 points 10 months ago

It's a twenty based system. "Two's" is 40, "three's" is 60, ...

50 is "halfway to 60" so it's "half three's", likewise "half four's" for 70, "four's" for 80 and "half five's" for 90. 100 is its own word so "half five's" exists but "five's" doesn't.

[–] callyral@pawb.social 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Seventeen is 7+10 (seven+teen) but twenty one is 20+1 (twenty+one)

If English was more consistent, seventeen would be ten seven.

[–] Black616Angel@feddit.de 6 points 10 months ago

If it was really consistent, it would be something like onety seven but not really either, since it's also not twoty seven.

PS: Eleven would be onety one.