How To Say The Number 92 In Various European Languages

[infobeautiful@vis.social]

How To Say The Number 92 In Various European Languages

Nice analysis: https://brilliantmaps.com/number-92/

[r0k@mastodon.social]

@infobeautiful I thought this was a football / stoppage time joke at first

[quincy@chaos.social]

@infobeautiful

TIL: Slovene follows the same pattern as German and Dutch

[pelle@veganism.social]

@infobeautiful
to-og-halv-fem-sinds-tyve 🫠

and it gets worse as numbers increase:
https://veganism.social/@pelle/116489933087412331

[colesstreetpothole@weatherishappening.network]

@r0k @infobeautiful
It still could be!

[pikesley@mastodon.me.uk]

@infobeautiful

WTF is going on in Denmark?

[davidnjoku@mastodon.world]

@infobeautiful https://youtu.be/yVunX-OpaAo

[funz@systemli.social]

@quincy @infobeautiful forgotten in the list

[quincy@chaos.social]

@funz @infobeautiful indeed, but I checked with other sources

[colesstreetpothole@weatherishappening.network]

@infobeautiful Today, my lifelong pondering over whether Lincoln's use of "Four score and seven years ago" to start the Gettysburg address was somehow a nod to the French is completely blown away by wonderment regarding whatever the fuck the Danish are doing.

[rhelune@todon.eu]

@infobeautiful Wait, Belgian French is normal?!

[janet@weirder.earth]

@infobeautiful Didn’t think it possible to beat the French, but bravo Denmark. N.b. This map also flattens regional languages, and apparently Basque is also “vigesimal”. https://archive.is/W8kYh

[matze@lebalkon.de]

@infobeautiful what the hell are the danish doing?

[tehstu@hachyderm.io]

@infobeautiful I vaguely recall knowing both the French way and the decimal way during Welsh lessons at school, so the 90+2 for the UK hides a bit of nuance.

edit - although clicking through the link, I guess it's only considering English for the UK.

[primetime@mastodon.social]

@infobeautiful 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

[xanna@mastodon.ie]

@infobeautiful Irish should be 2+90, or 2+10+4×20 (depending on what you're counting)

[carsten_o@neander.social]

@infobeautiful okay, das die #Franzosen verrückt sind, was Zahlen angeht wusste ich.

Aber was die #Dänen da machen ist ja noch wahnsinniger.

Und dann beschweren sich die Leute, dass wir in Deutschland die Zahlen vertauschen.

[yannc@piaille.fr]

@xanna @infobeautiful
Oh in breton language, there’s the same logic : 2 + 10 + 4×20

Plus, 99 can be 9 + 10 + 4 × 20 OR simply 100 - 1 (why bother?)

The 20 basis is a celtic heritage that french also took

[leo_citron@mastodon.social]

@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)

[edgeofeurope@mastodon.social]

@infobeautiful 'Ninety-two' is all nice and metric, but how do you say 92 in imperial English?