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Why is “97” “7 + [-½+5] x 20” in Danish?

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Why is “97” “7 + [-½+5] x 20” in Danish? | Jose's Lingulae

First, let's look at the counting system in each language introduced in the picture. Lang...

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It’s kind of funny how aware Danes are of their weird numbers system. I speak Norwegian and whenever I’m in Denmark they use the more sensible Norwegian number system to explain to me the prices of stuff (probably because I give them the deer in the headlights-stare whenever I hear something like “fem og halvfjerds”).
I’m otherwise decently fluent in Danish (first learned nynorsk then lived in Denmark for a few years). But when numbers come out I immediately switch back to Norwegian. Fucking Danes.