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RE[3]: Comment by kaiwai
by coolvibe on Tue 27th Oct 2009 11:56
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I like the finnish way of counting. It's quite simple, but numbers transcribed to words get scarily long. Some examples:
[1] yksi
[8] kahdeksan
[10] kymmenen
[11] yksitoista
[18] kahdeksantoista
So allright, that looks simple enough, but wait until we get to higher numbers:
[20] kaksokymmentä (not that bad)
[21] kaksokymmentäyksi
[39] neljakymmentäyhdeksan (could be worse)
[1337] yksituhatkolmesatakolmekymmentäseitseman (uuh...)
[31337] kolmekymmentäyksituhattakolmesatakolmekymmentäseitseman (argh)
No wonder the Finns don't talk that much.
RE[3]: Comment by kaiwai
by akavel on Tue 27th Oct 2009 13:35
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2009-05-24
I can never get used to the Danish way of counting. It's almost as bad as the French.
[50]
Swedish: femtio (five [times] ten)
Danish: halvtreds (half third [times twenty], where half third = 2.5)
[60]
Swedish: sextio (six [times] ten)
Danish: tres (three [times twenty])
[99]
Swedish: nittionio (nine [times] ten [and] nine)
Danish: ni og halvfems (nine and half fifth [times twenty])