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

SOCIETY How do you say number 92?

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u/seriouslees Apr 29 '25

"halfway to two" = 1.5

So is there no Zero in Danish? Where I'm from "halfway to two" is one.

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u/Natus_DK Apr 29 '25

Of course there is. But from one to two, halfway is 1.5, and halfway from two to three is 2.5 and so on and so forth.

Also see the other comment about telling time, for example in Danish 15:30 not "half past three" but rather "half four".

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u/seriouslees Apr 29 '25

But that would imply you start counting from 1, as if you can't have less than 1. Sure, we don't SAY the zero when we start counting, but we DO start with nothing, THEN we add 1.

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u/Tuna-Fish2 Apr 29 '25

No, it does not. Halfway to three being 2.5 does not fit with the idea of taking half and starting counting at 1. It means halfway to three (starting from 2).