How To Say The Number 92 In Various European Languages
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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....."
@ColesStreetPothole @rejinl @infobeautiful
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?
