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- Comment on Fucking hell 1 week ago:
We don’t really learn the reason, we just memorise the word for the number. Kinda like you know the word “dog” means a four legged cute creature, but not why the name is “dog”. The old rules are not something we are teached, I just got curious after a confused foreigner made me think about the system for a second :p
- Comment on Fucking hell 1 week ago:
Halvfjerds for 70 but yes. Firs is 80 though, so that doesn’t make in much easier.
Fjerde = fourth, fire = four. That makes “half to the fourth” become “halv til fjerde” or “halvfjerds” while “four times twenty” becomes “firsindstyve” and shortened to new Danish “firs”
- Comment on Fucking hell 1 week ago:
Correct.
- Half to the second (halvanden, still in use today) = 1.5
- Half to the third (halvtredje) = 2.5
- Half to the fourth (halvfjerde) = 3.5
- Half to the fifth (halvfemte) = 4.5
And so on. You might notice that I sometimes write it like “halvfemte” and other times “halvfems”. The latter is just the way it was spelled when used in a combined word (another fun quirk in Danish that we inherited from Germanic this time!). 90 is today spelled just “halvfems”.
- Comment on Fucking hell 1 week ago:
No, we use the same numeral symbols as everyone else. We just pronounce it in the most unintuitive manner possible.
I can imagine that we once had symbols representing the base 20 system but standardised at some point to decimal symbols. I though haven’t encountered any piece of history to back that up.
- Comment on Fucking hell 1 week ago:
We actually still say “halvanden” in Danish too. Everything else is not used (except for halvfems which means 90…)
- Comment on Fucking hell 1 week ago:
The reason is that the Danish numbering system is based on a vigesimal (base-20) system instead of the decimal system. Why is a good question but it might have been influenced by French during a time where numbers from 50-100 is less frequently used, making them prone to complexity. The fractions simply occur since you need at least one half of twenty (10) to make the change from e.g 50 to 60 in a 20-based system.
- Comment on Fucking hell 1 week ago:
Even worse. 90 in old Danish is “halvfemsindstyve” but it is rarely used today. The “sinds” part is derived from “sinde” means multiplied with but it is not in use in Danish anymore. That leaves halvfems, meaning half to the five (which is not used alone anymore) and tyve meaning twenty (as it still does).
We are in current Danish shortening it to halvfems which actually just means “half to the five” in old Danish (2.5) to say 90. 92 is then “tooghalvfems” (two and half to the five, or 2+2.5). The “sindstyve” part (multiplied with 20) fell out of favour.
So we at least have some rules to the madness. Were just not following the at all anymore.
- Comment on M'Lady 3 weeks ago:
Is that Cheeto flavoured soda?
- Comment on Did I post this to the right comm 5 weeks ago:
Less words, better propaganda
- Comment on What would you consider the 3 greatest movies ever made? 1 month ago:
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Babylon
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
- Comment on I've modified the Alcoholics Anonymous plan 1 month ago:
- Comment on Smart Girl 2 months ago:
It’s currently more than €2/L in Denmark
- Comment on Too dumb to understand where the gas tank opening is 2 months ago:
Usually the fuel cap is on the passenger side according to the country of origin, so for example European = right side, Japanese = left side. It’s not 100% bullet proof but it can eliminate a bit of the guess work if the car doesn’t have an arrow to indicate such side the cap is on.
- Comment on Just put a spray tan over it 3 months ago:
I think you’ll need a bigger patch of skin to actually see the results.
- Comment on Tipping culture is out of control, even the cops expect tips now! 3 months ago:
I was more thinking Dave Franco. The smile is definitely on point.
- Comment on So this is how my neighbor fixes his fence. 3 months ago:
It looks like there’s also a fence in the foreground and maybe a pathway inbetween, so I don’t think it’s a shared fence.
- Comment on STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl Potentially Banned in Russia Due To Potential 'Justifying Terrorism' 4 months ago:
I’m considering it. I’d probably want to know if it works well with Linux first.
- Comment on l fixed it! 4 months ago:
Eh, everything points to a mistake. Bitwarden not only rectified it ASAP but also made the switch to GPLv3. The latter is not just something you do to please people, you need to understand the legal ramifications it can have on your business, so it very likely was a change that’s been discussed before all of this.
- Comment on It's just taken me 55 minutes to watch a 35 minute episode on Plex because of crashes 4 months ago:
Can you elaborate on the Plex issues as of late? One of the guys I share my instance with has reported a lot of buffering that I haven’t been able to reproduce.
- Comment on No notes 4 months ago:
If you wanna say “hello shark!” in Danish you’ll say “hej haj!”
Good thing we don’t have sharks in Danish waters otherwise it’ll become pretty awkward when you greet someone at the beach.
- Comment on Robert Zemeckis wants to make another Back to the Future movie (with a twist) 4 months ago:
Kinda makes sense, but it is still weird hearing him say it. Especially after the musical flop that was Joker 2
- Comment on Robert Zemeckis wants to make another Back to the Future movie (with a twist) 4 months ago:
Zemeckis, are you okay? Do we need to call someone?
- Comment on Linux hits exactly 2% user share on the October 2024 Steam Survey 4 months ago:
Coincidentally last month I got the survey for the first time since I switched to Linux a decade ago.
- Comment on A bank referred me to their website to get more details about their products... 5 months ago:
That’s illegal in EU
- Comment on ‘Captain America: Brave New World' bombs at test screening 5 months ago:
I’ll from now on say Fuck you February when referring to movie releases.
“When’s Subpar Superhero: The Search for More Money coming out?”
“It’s set to release in Fuck you February”
- Comment on The devil will walk on earth 5 months ago:
I call it sand that’s been tortured so much they started doing math.
- Comment on The HELLDIVERS™^©®^³ 2 EULA is a URL 5 months ago:
If you have played less than 2 hours and it is at most 14 days since you purchased it, Steam will refund you with no questions asked.
- Comment on Effort require Effort 5 months ago:
Well, it bloody hell is! Me not being bothered to get to school in time is also an excuse! It might not be a good excuse, but that wasn’t the question
- Comment on Effort require Effort 5 months ago:
Be happy that your local culture isn’t 8 to 4 instead of 9 to 5… Bring a night owl sucks here…
- Comment on Ubisoft Says That XDefiant Has Fallen Behind Expectations 5 months ago:
Anything that isn’t Steam works like shit on Linux (mileage may vary, but that’s my experience). I find it hilarious and sad that I can get a better experience by pirating it and launch through Lutris.
