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Just a Numberby *humon

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So, uh, yeah. We have the same number system as everybody else, but we say the numbers a bit funny here in Denmark. Swedes and especially Norwegians love to make fun of that.

In case you’re wondering what numbers Denmark is saying it’s:
10 cows, 34 pigs, 52 chickens, 193 eggs, 261 nuts, which he then changes to 371 nuts.

Not even Danes will recognize these numbers the way I wrote them in English, but I was being an extreme pronunciation nazi and writing them almost exactly like they’re said in Danish.

The thing that really confuse our Northern neighbors is that with a number like 52 we don’t say “fifty two” but “two and fifty” which sounds like “two fifty”. And our word for fifty sounds like “half sixty” and 90 sounds like “half fives” and it just goes on like that.

You are allowed to be confused. And Norway had to put up with that for 300 years.

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~Mottmatt 1 day ago

Same in German.

~Exilon58 Apr 19, 2013

*Brain broke*= I CANT BREATH XD

~Chikki1 Feb 16, 2013 Hobbyist Filmographer

it is a LOL face!

~Tektarra Jan 26, 2013 Student General Artist

~BoneBilder Jan 7, 2013

Are numbers really can be wierd...
(Hvis halvfjerds er 70, er hel-fjerds så 140????)

~N-Droid Dec 27, 2012 Student General Artist

does not compute... DERP

~feelomen Dec 12, 2012 Student Writer

In dutch, we use the same way to pronounce our numbers

~Ilovemynightmares Nov 29, 2012

The Welsh have a ridiculous number system too. You can say it the easy way, but there is an official way for dates, and positions such as first, second, and third. The official way is the ridiculous one. It's all like: "It's the sixteenth and third of December today." It's not the way it's put, it's the way it's said. Sixteenth is completely different word to sixteen. Sixteen is "un-deg-chwech"(one-ten-six) and sixteen is "unfed". It's like that with every number above five. -.-;
Now that I think about it, the easy way is hard too. I'm just used to it. Un mil, tri cant a pump deg saith. would be, in English, -one thousand, three hundred and five ten sevens.

~Sareth1337 Nov 23, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Yeah, we in germany have a similar counting system.
Instead of saying ninety-nine or fifty-three, we say 'neunundneunzig' (nine-and-ninety) and dreiundfünfzig (three-and-fifty).
Nothing beats the french counting system though, they actually have to calculate their numbers (or rather we have to, for them its common). 99 would be quatre-vingt-dix-neuf (4x20+10+9)
... O_O

~saradrawer Jan 11, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Well the german counting system isn't just, alike, because when you say zweiundvierzig (sorry for my bad german spelling), you say vierzig like vier and then zig, you have the number and then "and zig" in Denmark it is a bit more confused, like four is named 'fire' and forty is named 'fyrre', just dont make sense, like nine is 'ni' and then ninety become 'halvfems'

But holy cow, a counting system the french have

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