• yA3xAKQMbqEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I think syntactically Danish is much less complex and easier, you know, only two cases, two genders. It’s just that nobody understands shit when they open up their mouths… ¯\(ツ)/¯

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=s-mOy8VUEBk

    Oh, and the way they count is… I mean, you couldn’t do it worse than the French if you tried, but the Danish are just „hold my gløgg… halvfjerds“ 🤡

    • isthingoneventhis@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I hate danish numbers because I flip letters/numbers a lot when I speak in English so Danish is just turbo fuck-you mode of numbers sucking ass.

      And yea it does come out as … noise vaguely masquerading as “important sounds”. At least Norwegian was like “lol wtf are out doing get those shitty letters you don’t even say out of here nerds”. Swedish … Swedish scares me. I hate when there is Swedish in Danish movies because I can’t hear Swedish and read Danish without my brain melting.

      • yA3xAKQMbqEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, but I’m used to that, it’s the same in German (and it sucks, especially for people with dyslexia), no, what I meant is the way they actually count.

        You know, like 99 in French is „quatre-vingt-dix-neuf“? „4 (times) 20 (plus) 10 (plus) 9“.

        Which I always thought the most idiotic way ever to come up with counting? Until I learned about the Danish…

        Ever wondered why 50 in Danish is „halvtreds“? Because „halv tredje“ means… „half-third“? Which is 2 1/2.

        Are you sitting? „Halvtreds“ is short for „halvtredsindstyve“, which literally means „half third times twenty“.

        2 1/2 * 20 = 50 🤡

        Same with 70, 90…

        • isthingoneventhis@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Yeah the mathing bits I knew were from something older, the entire equation I don’t remember offhand. French has been mostly repressed.

          I’m more upset about time verbage being absolutely fucked and … crap I think it’s 30 minutes… into the hour instead of before? It’s so confusing and I get it backwards constantly because who fucking counts time like that even.

          Like half til 6 (or however you say it idk) is 5:30 and not … 6:30 or some asinine BS. I will take strange ye olde numbers over that shit any day. I just default to 24 hour time because I absolutely cannot be assed and it’s very dumb. I’ve explained it very poorly but hopefully it makes sense lol. And they use quarter/half past like please… please stop, just tell me weird numbers.

          • yA3xAKQMbqEnglish
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            1 year ago

            Hah! Yeah, I understand, but I’ve been hearing this in spoken English as well, „half seven“ instead of „half past six“, though in school I was taught only the latter existed.

            It’s like this in German as well, and it’s also regionally different, but once you get it it’s actually nice:

            In most parts of Germany (and where I grew up) and in Standard German you tell time (literally) as:

            Six, quarter past six, half seven, quarter before seven, seven.

            In the south of Germany it’s: six, quarter past six, half seven, three quarter seven, seven. This never made sense to me, until…

            … I moved to East Germany, where it’s: six, quarter seven (!), half seven, three quarter seven, seven.

            Imagine my face, I never even had heard of this before I moved there 😂

            I immediately picked this up because it rolls off your tongue way easier in German than the standard way. And it’s mindblowingly logical. I love it:

            You just need to imagine an hour as a cake: one quarter of seven, half of seven, three quarters of seven, seven. Genius.