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Re:Danish numbers by drblah on Sunday October 22, 2017 @05:14PM (#15528975)
I really wish the danish numbers had been reformed. It is a drag to communicate numbers verbally and then write them down. It is very prone to errors since the verbal number sequence is so strange.

Exampel: 54. It is pronounced: fire-og-halv-treds (four-and-half-threes.) As you might notice, the spoken sequence is backwards compared to the written number. this gets even more confusing when saying a number above 100. 136 is et-hundrede-og-seks-og-treidve. (One-hundreds-and-six-and-threes).

Re:Danish numbers by KozmoNau7 on Sunday October 22, 2017 @05:48PM (#15529133)
Even worse, it's actually four-and-half-three-twenty or in plainer terms four, plus three and a half twenties.
Re:Danish numbers by Bromskloss on Sunday October 22, 2017 @08:02PM (#15529760)
Let's not make everything streamlined, bland, and the same everywhere! Let's keep our respective characters, idiosyncrasies, that were passed down from our forefathers. Let it show when you travel from one country to the next!
Re:Danish numbers by ivanche on Sunday October 22, 2017 @05:22PM (#15529010)
And not only in Danish, unfortunately. In German it is vierundfünfzig (four and fifty) and einhundertsechsunddreißig (one hundred six and thirty). Crazy!