• ArcaneGadget@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Yeah, this problem comes up with 50, 60, 70, 80 and 90 in Danish, because those are counted in “number of twenties” for some reason. And not like “3-and-a-half-twenties” but rather “halfway-towards-the-fourth-twenty”. That example is 70 by the way (halfjersindstyvende). And nowadays it’s shortened to omit the “twenties”-part. So in this case just “halvfjers”.

    The naming convention is pretty whack, but it’s just treated as irregular naming in normal use. The alternative, would be to rename those numbers to femti, seksti, syvti, otteti, and niti, but that’s very much an uphill battle against habit. So for now. 50, 60, 70, 80, and 90 just have unique names…