My dude jumping right ahead to futures.

Punch me I bleed in my ass.

Literally listening to Children of Bodom, while I read this post. Alexi would have approved, I’m sure.

I don’t think a different base explains things really well. Even though the way you guys count to 16 may point to a hexadecimal system, but then all the higher numbers would have to work entirely different. It’s at least an inconsistent mix of systems.

But of course you don’t do maths in your head and it all just boils down to words for numbers, that you simply know. That’s just how language works, and a lot of language starts to become weird, if you think about it too much. Doesn’t mean we can’t have fun teasing each other about it. ;)

It absolutely reminded me of the fight we have here in Germany about how to say what time it is.

Some rare people (like my beloved girlfriend) only really understand when you say something like, “four o’clock thirty”
The rest of us is fine using “half five” to refer to that.

But the real argument is in the quarters.

16:15

Some people just say “quarter past four” while others borrow the concept from above and say “quarter five”

16:45

The one group calls it “quarter to five” while the others stick to their concept and call it “three-quarters five”

It is a regional difference, but the groups are totally scattered and don’t follow typical geographical or administrative borders.

We’ve had meme wars over this.

My favourite for life will always be kræftedme = cancer eat me - usually uttered in a sentence to underline how pissed off you are and how serious you are about being pissed off.

Just curious: do you take that as a reference to cancer as a sickness or actual crabs eating you?

In German the word for cancer (Krebs) is a homonym referring to both the sickness and a crustacean. So I wondered how this works in Danish.

(It is in English too, though the reference to crabs is only scientific and thus a very exotic interpretation)

(edit the 4x20+10 is similarly just 90)

I can let you get away with the first part about 4x20 just becoming the word for 80, but with this one, you’re just fooling yourself and others.

If it were just another word for ninety, than ninety-two would be (4x20+10)+2 instead of 4x20+12 And it works that way up to 96.

Just stop making excuses and own the weirdness.

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