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Mine is people who separate words when they write. I'm Norwegian, and we can string together words indefinetly to make a new word. The never ending word may not make any sense, but it is gramatically correct

Still, people write words the wrong way by separating them.

Examples:

  • "Ananas ringer" means "the pineapple is calling" when written the wrong way. The correct way is "ananasringer" and it means "pineapple rings" (from a tin).

  • "Prinsesse pult i vinkel" means "a princess fucked at an angle". The correct way to write it is "prinsessepult i vinkel", and it means "an angeled princess desk" (a desk for children, obviously)

  • "Koke bøker" means "to cook books". The correct way is "kokebøker" and means "cookbooks"

I see these kinds of mistakes everywhere!

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[-] Pea666@feddit.nl 10 points 1 year ago

Same thing for Dutch. For example, when we see 74 we pronounce it as four and seventy (vierenzeventig) and it makes no sense.

I guess it’s a Germanic language thing.

[-] akafester@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

This is the same in Danish, but weirdly not in Swedish.

We say four-seventy for 74, and hundred-four-seventy for 174. But the swedes does it like the English. Don’t know about Norwegian though. Maybe OP can provide me with some new knowledge.

[-] guyrocket@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

French: 80 is four twenties ("Quatre-vingt")

Edit: not four tens, four twenties. I can't count in any language, dammit!

[-] datavoid@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

And 90 - 99 are even worse, in that they are basically eighty-ten, eighty-eleven, etc.

Makes zero sense to my English speaking mind

[-] Bangs42@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, it's worse than that.

80 is basically four-twenties. 17, 18, and 19 are basically ten-seven, ten-eight, and ten-9. Which makes 97, 98, and 99 four-twenties-ten-seven, four-twenties-ten-eight, and four-twenties-ten-nine.

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

I remember reading that one of the Scandinavian languages had a specific (successful) governmental policy to change from German-like numbers to English-like ones. I don't remember which of them it was.

[-] CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

It is true, at least here in Norway: https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Den_nye_tellem%C3%A5ten ("The new way of counting").

Our parliament deceided in 1949 that 21 should not be pronounced as "one-and-twenty", but as "twenty-one". It was because new phone numbers got introduced, and the new way gave a lot less errors when spoken to the "sentralbordamer" (switch operator ladies).

[-] Ehz350@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

We need that here in Denmark.

[-] CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It depens on age and/or dialect. My dialect is from the middle of Norway (trøndersk), and I say 74 as "fir'å søtti". Other parts of Norway may say "søtti fire". Luckily we do not do the weird danish numbers.

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Early modern English has it so it tracks (four-and-twenty blackbirds baked in a pie)

[-] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Also in the teens. Sixteen has the six before the ten

[-] CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

24 blackbirds baked in a pie?

[-] CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It depends on how old you are here. If you say "fir'å søtti", you are at least in your 70s. If you say "søttifire", you are not 70 but younger.

And, to cause a bit more confusion, it also depends on your dialect, and if your dialect is the cause, your age isn't. Easy.

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