I thought French couldn’t be beaten but are you okay Denmark?

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by ExtremeOccident

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  5. In Czech you can say both 90+2 (devadesát dva) and 2+90 (dvaadevadesát).

  8. Go home Denmark, you’re drunk. France it’s free to stay, they are their usual strange.

  9. I don’t know what you’re talking about. 92 in Danish is kamelåså. And so is 93 for that matter. And 95.

  10. So yes this is the meme, but it really isn’t like that to speakers of French and Danish. In French the word for 80 is “quatre-vingts”. They are not thinking “four-twenties”, they are thinking “eighty”. If you say “huitante” or “nonante” to a French person who has not encountered those words, they will be confused, because they are not words that they have heard before. It doesn’t matter that yes they can probably figure out what you mean, because when speaking our native language we don’t usually have to stop and figure out the meaning of a word from its component parts. For instance, an English speaker doesn’t think “a case for my books” when someone says the word “bookcase”. The object is just a bookcase.

    Having said that, I do appreciate that one of these maps actually got Switzerland and Belgium mostly right (only “mostly”, since they have decided that for instance all of Valais speaks French which is decidedly not the case)

  13. What about Wallonia (Belgium)? I guess it’s possible to say numbers normally in French, just not in France?

  14. Pay the Danegeld in the exact amount or we sack your village.

  15. There is a reason for why I counted in Swedish as a kid.

  16. Where did you get this map from? Graphically, it looks like it’s by Katapult, especially the text style. But I could also be wrong and designers just get inspired by other designers 🙂

    Anyway, awesome map. Funny Denmark heh

  19. I’m not surprised on France but omg Denmark what’s wrong with you

  21. We say it ‘kilencvenkettő’.

    Explanation:>!9 is ‘kilenc’, 90 is ‘kilenc**ven**’, 2 is ‘kettő’ and we just combine the two number that’s how you get ‘kilencvenkettő’!<

  22. For the record THE MAP IS NOT OK. There is a tiny land in spain called basque country where there is a language calles basque where 92 is said with the same fucked Up system as french from France. Still basque is worse as the weird maths begun as soon as the 30 arrives.

  23. To be entirely fair, one should write ‘ninety’ as ‘nine-tens’, 9×10, in the legend, just like writing ‘-s’ as ×20 in Danish

  24. To make a long version short (gets brought up so incredibly often), Danish basically is 2+90. It’s just that the etymology for 99 technically is derived from (5-1/2)*20. But while one may notice it, no speaker thinks about 90 as being anything but its own word. You just learn it without knowing the etymology.

  26. Tbf you only associate the sound with 70,80,90 and don’t do the maths in reality.

    Indeed the reason France does it this way is because Louis XIV decided that SEPTANTE, HUITANTE, NONANTE just sounds dumb and weak.

    So he asked some advisors to come up with something more badass sounding. QUATRE-VINGT-DIX sounds a lot more badass than NONANTE.

    Problem solved 🙂

    Can’t fault him on that

  28. Does the danish one even make sense? I cant figure it out

  29. My gf is danish and when she says numbers I just give up

  32. Germany: what if you just said neunzigzwei (that is 90 2)? Not that it can be total gibberish, right? Maybe in some regions or slangs it’s even used for real?

  33. Fun fact: Danish children are some of the worst at math. Due to counting in danish.
    Lmao.

  34. Finnish is 9×10 2

    yhdeksänkymmentäkaksi

    yhdeksän – nine

    kymmentä – of ten

    kaksi – two

    2×10 9 – 29

    kaksikymmentäyhdeksän

    kaksi – two

    kymmentä – of ten

    yhdeksän – nine

  35. In Denmark, it’s like Germany 2+90 not the old way showing

  36. >The French numbering system is so difficult and weird. Why do we have to do math to count!?

    -Said by plenty of my friends. Most of whom speak Basque which has the exact same numbering system. SMH

  39. You could add a small red area in the basque country in northern Spain, since in basque language, Euskera, it is Laurogeita hamabi = 4×20+12

  41. I like it how the Walloons go their own way. How about the Swiss francophones?

  43. In wallonia we say nonante-deux but we still say quatre vingt for 80 go figure. 

  44. I do find quite funny that the other French-speaking countries managed to understand decimal counting while France couldn’t.

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