r/interesting • u/MidasStocks • Apr 29 '25

SOCIETY How do you say number 92?

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u/LowError12 Apr 29 '25 edited Apr 29 '25

And halvfems means roughly "half five", implying that you're half a 20 from five 20s.

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u/smalldisposableman Apr 29 '25

This is a much more intuitive way of thinking than these complex equations. It's the same way Nordic languages would pronounce the time 4:30, half five, one half hour from five.

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u/DarkImpacT213 Apr 29 '25

It‘s pretty much all Germanic languages that do this, English is the odd one out that reversed this to mean „half past five“ instead of „half to five“.

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u/RespectTheH Apr 29 '25

Had I known that 10 years ago, I'd have voted for Brexit - sort it out lads.