• Poiar@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Yeah… This is not the right way Danes say it.

      It’s not tooghalvfemsindstyvende

      It’s more like toårhalfæms. Nobody says sindstyvende, only people who don’t know the language…

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      1 year ago

      I think the German solution works better for the German language. ‘neunzigundzwei’ sounds worse than ‘zweiundneunzig’ or at least less flowy. But I’m obv biased by being German lol and this is just one example.

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        1 year ago

        I think that’s just because you’re used to it.

        I am German too and it would feel weird, but our way of saying it is really weird, when considered.

        Especially if you add a hundred.

        137

        One-hundred seven and thirty

        It’s just uselessly jumping around.

      • CommunicationOk3492@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, I think we’re just biased. If it would have been always the other way around, we probably would think it’s the flowy way to say it xD