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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How numbers are pronounced.
In German the number 185 is pronounced as “hundred-five-and-eighty” (hundertfünfundachtzig), the digits are not spoken in order of their magnitude.
Not terrible, not great.

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be the change you want to see, all young germans should start saying numbers sensibly and call anyone who does it the old way a boomer

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Please dont

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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.

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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.

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French: 80 is four twenties (“Quatre-vingt”)

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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24 blackbirds baked in a pie?

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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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Wait, a case where English is more logical? There must be some mistake!

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“Hundre-og-åtti-fem”

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