Inferior Third Season posted:

I went to sprogskole ten years ago, and we were taught that every clause and subordinate clause gets separated by a comma. Basically, every verb gets its own comma or period. So, it's not "I think it's going to snow", it's "I think, it's going to snow".

Compared to some other languages, it is an easy rule to follow when writing. It just makes reading quite a chore when a sentence gets a bit long and complicated.

teen witch posted:

Between the above and the Store Brand French counting system Danish has, I’m starting to think the potato is not in the mouth, but in the brain.

I can tease out Finnish’s logic game of grammar and structure, but if I hear fireoghalvfems, I’ll react Scanners-style.

BonHair posted:

Punctuation is like sex: when in doubt, leave it out. Also it's never actually good.

Konec Hry posted:

It's super logical and easy to convert it to Swedish. "Fems" is, of course, fem * 20 = 100. And "fjers" is fyra * 20 and "tres" is tre * 20.

Now, when you see a "halv" in front, you would do what is only logical when you're calculating what the "halv" is of something - you remove 10!

So femoghalvtres is easy. 55!

edit: I guess it's "treds"? Whatever!

I was going to make this tongue-in-cheek but this is just literally how I do it in my head. Kind of makes sense when you have in mind that their system is based in portions of 20, tjogräkning.

teen witch posted:

E: how does Danish translate Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra?

Dumb Sex-Parrot posted:

A lot of the naming is based on the archaic halv-'whatever' to indicate a numerical. 'Halv-anden' is the only word still in common usage in danish, and it means a half before two, or 1.5. In the same vein there's halv-tredje (2.5), halv-fjerde (3.5) and so on.

Collateral Damage posted:

On commas, I try to not use more than one per sentence. If I feel like there should be another comma it's usually better to just start a new sentence instead.

A Buttery Pastry posted:

We should bring all of them back.

Anders posted:

Please don't bring it back. You already have problems understanding another

This is how you end up coming home from the isenkram with a thousand bottles of milk

watho posted:

i mean if you'd ask me if i'd rather chose that counting system or -35°C winters i'd probably pick the former but here we are living with the consequences of our existences

Zulily Zoetrope posted:

i loathe that half-assed propaganda piece

isenkram is the word for the merchandize, a purveyor or store from which you obtain isenkram would be a kræmmer

e: or, archaically, an isenkræmmer if you prefer, but no proper Dane would ever neglect an arbitrary declension

Nice piece of fish posted:

Where else are we gonna buy a syklekule?

Zulily Zoetrope posted:

i loathe that half-assed propaganda piece

Dumb Sex-Parrot posted:

A lot of the naming is based on the archaic halv-'whatever' to indicate a numerical. 'Halv-anden' is the only word still in common usage in danish, and it means a half before two, or 1.5. In the same vein there's halv-tredje (2.5), halv-fjerde (3.5) and so on.

You then do the logic mumbojumbo and multiply your halv-'whatever' with 20 to get the proper number. This is also reflected in the old way of saying the numbers' names, eg. 70 is halvfjerdsindstyve, where you say your multiplicative modifier and finish it off with saying twenty. You pretty much word out arithmetic and everyone nods along because that makes total sense.

And to complete the mess you throw in a few unique names in the beginning.

10: Ti
20: Tyve
30: Tredive
40: Fyrre
50: Halvtredsindstyve (2.5 * 20)
60: Tresindstyve (3 * 20)
70: Halvfjerdsindstyve (3.5*20)
80: Firsindstyve (4*20)
90: Halvfemsindstyve (4.5*20)

BonHair posted:

I use halvtredje and friends occasionally. My wife understands but thinks it's dumb, everyone else just don't understand. But if enough of us do it, maybe we can bring it back.

Anders posted:

Please don't bring it back. You already have problems understanding another

This is how you end up coming home from the isenkram with a thousand bottles of milk

Anders posted:

Kamelåså?

Edit: I assumed this had been posted ITT half a thousand times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykj3Kpm3O0g

BlankSystemDaemon posted:

I like that we have a base-20 counting system, and nobody has any clue why or how we even got it, since it's apparently got no relation to the French base-20 counting system.

Rust Martialis posted:

I say femsindtyve for 100 to irk my Danish gf sometimes

A Buttery Pastry posted:

Obviously we taught the French how to count.

SplitSoul posted:

ulvir posted:

your counting system is not even half as deranged as the french system. nioghalvfemsinstyve sounds almost reasonable compared to four-twenty-ten-nine

V. Illych L. posted:

there's something deeply peculiar about people who admit to admiring the united states of america for just about anything imo

SplitSoul posted:

Esran posted:

Fully on brand. Her only guiding principle is sucking up to the US, so of course she'd love Kissinger.

If it weren't for Fogh, I'd say she's the worst leader we've had in the last several decades.

Rust Martialis posted:

It would be far more peculiar to deny that there's things to admire the USA or her people for. Mostly material achievements, but culturally you can't say there's nothing there.

It's like denying the Soviet Union did anything admirable. It tells you something about the speaker.

V. Illych L. posted:

european - especially scandinavian - admiration for the US is similar to enjoying pornography in every material way. many people do it, but it's something decent people keep to themselves and it is rightly considered at least a little shameful

BonHair posted:

Voting records usually have key people being absent for unknown reasons, and also no one really cares though. I still support getting it to Parliament, it's just going to be a depressing result in the end.

Also can we give Nyrup some credit for starting the neoliberal turn in Socialdemokratieterne? Maybe not as bad as the others, but he should get some credit.