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 1 year 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 1 year ago (1 children)

How‽

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year 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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year 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.