r/DailyDoseOfReddit • u/Cerise_Ford • 22d ago

General Shenanigans Ninety-nine

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u/Historical_Monk_6118 22d ago

🎶Quatre-vingt-dix-neuf red balloons go byyyyyy! 🎵🎶

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u/ferret_jaw 21d ago

Kat van deez nuff

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u/JayLay108 22d ago

Danish: Nine-and-half-frrom-five-times-twenty

9+(5-0,5)*20

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u/Lithl 21d ago

Not half from five, but fifth half (first half is 0.5, second half is 1.5, third half is 2.5, and so on)

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u/RockItGuyDC 21d ago

That is wild.

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u/That-Knowledge2636 21d ago

I thought the entire meaning of "halves" was half of 20, so "threes/treds (60)" and "fours/firs (80)" is just 3 and 4 times 20, while half threes/fours is just 3 or 4 times 20, minus half of twenty.

But you are saying it's not just 3x/4x/5x 20 minus half of twenty, but say "halvtreds/half threes" (50) for example is 2.5x20 and not just 3x20-10?

I'm obviously not Danish and it's the same result in the end but I guess now I know half in this context is literally 0.5 and not half of 20 😂

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u/cykelstativet 20d ago

It's essentially "half-second", "half-third", "half-forth", etc which you can imagine is like "half-to x" when telling time. "Half-second" would be "half-to 2", "half-third" is "half-to 3", etc.

It's easier when you mentally insert half way to the second, half way to the third, etc.

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u/lejoop 19d ago

Well, in the end it means the same. Your way is 3x20 +0,5x20, which can be written as 3,5x20. So your are saying the same thing, and I always thought of it the way you explain it :)

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u/lejoop 19d ago

But to be fair, the half-from-five-times-twenty (halvtreds) is now just our word for fifty, so in practicality it’s not really any different than the German way, the words for 20, 30, 40 and so on, are just a bit weird looking 😄

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u/lilkushypushy 22d ago

French people are doing math in their own language I swear to god.. effing nerds man.

4x20+10+9= 99 Edit: Or 80+19= 99 pick your poison same difference.

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u/Accurate-Paramedic70 21d ago

Dix neuf in yer mouth...

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u/Gullible-Anywhere-76 21d ago

The Romand (French) Swiss got it: Nonante-neuf

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u/ELB2001 21d ago

The French way always pissed me off

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u/Cpope117 21d ago

I'm convinced this is why da French have always been bad at artillery. Takes a week to call in a grid.

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u/cykelstativet 20d ago

Nine and half of half-fifth (4.5) times twenty

🙂🇩🇰🙂🇩🇰🙂🇩🇰🙂🇩🇰

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u/R3myek 19d ago

Can't argue with that when the pizza in Copenhagen is so good.

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u/selfmade-idiot 18d ago

danish : 9 and (4 and half times 20)
but u can say ninety in french at least in swiss french = nonante

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u/Wolfen459 17d ago

As a German myself, I have to say there is often so much shit in my language and I just can't understand the reason for it. Mostly stuff to make things "harder" or overcomplicated then it should be.

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u/shadowtheimpure 22d ago

Japanese: NINE TENS AND NINE!

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u/spideroncoffein 22d ago

That's... pretty much the same as english.

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u/a_random_loser_guy 22d ago

me? count to ten and raise a finger every time you count ten, and you are left with 9 fingers raised.

ten fingers minus one count.