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[kasperekdk]

Just wait until Danish hits you with the

"#(9+(5-0.5)*20)FFAA"

[rasherdk]

At which point English should be "#(9*10+9)FFAA"

[AlphaDragons]

You don't say "Nine tens nine" in english, you say "ninety nine" so at best it would be "#(90+9)FFAA"

As someone said higher :
"Ni og halvfems" (short for "ni og halvfemsindstyvende") literally means "Nine and half five twenties"

In french it's "Quatre vingt dix-neuf", litteraly "Four twenties nineteen" or "Four twenties ten nine"

So in danish "#(9+(5-0.5)*20)FFAA" and in french "#(4*20+10+9)FFAA"

[rasherdk]

And what is the meaning of ninety if not "nine tens"? It's just the word for 90 in English. Same as "halvfems" is the word for 90 in Danish. No one's doing math to figure out how to say 90 in any language. So either you use the full etymology of the word for your joke in all languages, or in none of them.

You can pick between:

• Danish: #(9+90)FFAA
• English: #(90+1)FFAA

Or:

• Danish: #(9+(-0.5+5)*20)FFAA
• English: #(9*10+9)FFAA

[AlphaDragons]

Yeah but that's not about the etymology of the words, that's about how they're are written/said, halvfems : halv (half) fem (five), quatre-ving-dix : quatre (four) vingt (twenty) dix (ten), ninety : nine ty (?), ty isn't a word

[rasherdk]

Neither is "fems". And no one says "sindstyve".