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minus-squareAeronMelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up81·2 months agoThe archaic way of enumerating things in prose “two and ninety” is the best part. Perfect comedic reveal.
minus-squareSubArcticTundra@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·2 months agoI think it’s also used in archaic English ‘four and twenty blackbirds, baked in a pie’
minus-squareSerinus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 months agoFour score and seven years ago
minus-squarevaultdweller013@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoThe and is a bit weird but I do sometimes break large numbers down like that, for example if I’m looking at an address I won’t say 1050 I won’t say one thousand fifty ill say ten fifty.
minus-squareMinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agono that’s 420 blackbirds. it’s a very high pie.
minus-squarejaaake@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·2 months agoThe timing of “two… PLUS ANOTHER NINE WITH A ZERO AFTER IT” is something I’ll never experience in my native tongue.
minus-squaretoofpic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·2 months agoHa, never learn Danish!
minus-squarejaaake@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 months agoThe last. Much like Americans with their dates, English would occasionally jumble up the unit order.
minus-squarecaptainlezbian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 months agoGerman still does this. The French are even worse.
minus-squareAngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 months agoPray tell what is wrong with quatre vignt y douze? Other than the fact that it has been decades since I took French and probably misspelled every single word there. Their way of counting just makes it more frequent to encounter 420
The archaic way of enumerating things in prose “two and ninety” is the best part. Perfect comedic reveal.
I think it’s also used in archaic English ‘four and twenty blackbirds, baked in a pie’
Four score and seven years ago
The and is a bit weird but I do sometimes break large numbers down like that, for example if I’m looking at an address I won’t say 1050 I won’t say one thousand fifty ill say ten fifty.
no that’s 420 blackbirds. it’s a very high pie.
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The timing of “two… PLUS ANOTHER NINE WITH A ZERO AFTER IT” is something I’ll never experience in my native tongue.
Ha, never learn Danish!
To og halv fems!
Is it 180? 290? 92?
The last. Much like Americans with their dates, English would occasionally jumble up the unit order.
German still does this. The French are even worse.
Pray tell what is wrong with quatre vignt y douze?
Other than the fact that it has been decades since I took French and probably misspelled every single word there.
Their way of counting just makes it more frequent to encounter 420