[xorcist]

> the original counting system in the Nordic region was based on 20s?

No other Nordic language is like that.

It's probably not a coindicence that the same system the French use. Apparently French was the coolest language you could speak in the 1700s and all the nobility did it.

Only the Danish swalllowed the "twenty" part of the it, so it's no longer possible to deduce any meaning from hearing the word. Add that to the fact that "half" has a universally accepted meaning too, but should be understood here as "ten-less-than".

So I think Danish wins the most bizarre counting system over the French. And the French is far more so than the German. All they're guilty of is being careless with the ordering of numerals.

[bryanrasmussen]

>> the original counting system in the Nordic region was based on 20s?

>No other Nordic language is like that.

ok, I was just guessing, hence the question mark.

But I guess Boris Jensen described the reason https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29369172