How To Say The Number 92 In Various European Languages
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@screwturn @wibble @infobeautiful I was thinking about something along the lines of pre-decimal pound prices.
Oh in Imperial it would all change depending on WHAT you were measuring!
This was all just for general numberingFor land distance, it would be in furlongs, miles, chains, rods, yards, inches and fractions thereof
For nautical distance it would be in nautical miles except if it was depth, in which case fathoms
Weight would be in an astonishing number of different measures, and also depend on WHAT was being weighed, and volume would be an insane array -
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I always knew French numbers were mad, I didn't know Danish were even worse!@cockneylaurie @infobeautiful same here, looked it up, "tooghalvfems" is based on base 20 system... but then thet allow "half" as part of a digit, 2 + 4.5*20 instead of 2+9*10.
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Oh in Imperial it would all change depending on WHAT you were measuring!
This was all just for general numberingFor land distance, it would be in furlongs, miles, chains, rods, yards, inches and fractions thereof
For nautical distance it would be in nautical miles except if it was depth, in which case fathoms
Weight would be in an astonishing number of different measures, and also depend on WHAT was being weighed, and volume would be an insane arrayFor pure money, lets not forget that we have in addition to pounds, shillings, sovereigns, farthings, pennies, ha'penny, thrupence, and so on
They ALL had different units - 20 shillings to a pound, 12 pence to a shilling, four farthings to a penny, ha'penny, was of course half a penny, thrupence was three pennies, sixpence was amazingly six
Now of course a florin was two pounds, a halfcrown was two pounds and sixpence, an a guinea was usually 21 shilling -
How To Say The Number 92 In Various European Languages
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@infobeautiful Danish is ridiculous at this point.
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@rhelune @infobeautiful Yes, belgian are more logical with numbers than french are.
If you order a "demi" (half of a pint) of beer in
you will have 25cl because at some point decided a pint is 50cl.
Meanwhile in
a pint is 1L (100cl) so if you order a "demi" you will have 50cl - half a Litre - which make more sense.
(Or maybe it's just a ruse to get french tourist buy more - that would be funny)@leo_citron @rhelune @infobeautiful a pint (volume unit) is about 0.5l, so yes, french's "pinte" is 0.5l, so a "démi pinte" is 0.25. My impression is that you're confusing the volume unit with the standard beer glass? I can't find the word in German.
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@screwturn @wibble @edgeofeurope @infobeautiful Four score and a baker's dozen, less one loaf.
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Denmark here: to be fair nobody pronounces the 20 so in reality its more like 2 & (half-5)'s.
We are not completely insane you know
That’s worse. You see how that’s worse right.
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Denmark here: to be fair nobody pronounces the 20 so in reality its more like 2 & (half-5)'s.
We are not completely insane you know@Primetime @infobeautiful It makes kinda sense coming from Nederlands - 4:30 is `half five', 9:30 is `half ten'. It only feels obscure because of the elision.
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How To Say The Number 92 In Various European Languages
Nice analysis: https://brilliantmaps.com/number-92/
I told this to my wife when I first learned about it and her response was something along the lines of “Danish should probably consider just starting over.”
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How To Say The Number 92 In Various European Languages
Nice analysis: https://brilliantmaps.com/number-92/
@infobeautiful is Denmark ok
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For pure money, lets not forget that we have in addition to pounds, shillings, sovereigns, farthings, pennies, ha'penny, thrupence, and so on
They ALL had different units - 20 shillings to a pound, 12 pence to a shilling, four farthings to a penny, ha'penny, was of course half a penny, thrupence was three pennies, sixpence was amazingly six
Now of course a florin was two pounds, a halfcrown was two pounds and sixpence, an a guinea was usually 21 shillingAlso, don't fucking get me started of Reagan keeping the US on Imperial, and how agonizingly stupid Imperial gets with small lengths
Motor brushes are offered in catalogues in inches, half-inches, quarter-inches, decimal fractions of inches, but also in eighths, sixteenths, twenty-fifths, thirty-seconds, sixty-fourths, one-hundred-and-twenty-eighths
On one page in a list of brushes of essentially the same dimensions, there were TWELVE different unit used -
How To Say The Number 92 In Various European Languages
Nice analysis: https://brilliantmaps.com/number-92/
@infobeautiful This makes me nervous that the French have so much nuclear power and the Danes make towering wind turbines.
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@leo_citron @rhelune @infobeautiful a pint (volume unit) is about 0.5l, so yes, french's "pinte" is 0.5l, so a "démi pinte" is 0.25. My impression is that you're confusing the volume unit with the standard beer glass? I can't find the word in German.
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@rejinl @infobeautiful "We will occasionally require you to solve trig equations before regaining control of your car's steering wheel....."
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Tan sine cosine auld langsine
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@RolfBly @mdione @rhelune @infobeautiful fucking belges
@blogdiva @RolfBly @mdione @rhelune @infobeautiful
Belge.Party
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@jonassmith Please tell me this is true
@aldonogueira of course it is, how else would you possibly say it?
