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[solbjerg]

The 20th of February 2010

February the 20th 2010

If the day is first it sounds best if one uses the "of"

While February 20th 2010 doesn't need the "the" as much.

To further cut down on the characters used one can lose the th and instead use a full stop.

(laziness is the mother of invention) J

In Danish 70 is articulated "halvfjerds" or "halvfjerdsindstyve" - in English seventy.

The reason is that the ancient Danish number system didn't use 10 as base but 20.

(score in English)

So halv – fjerd – sinds – tyve

is Half - four - times - twenty

And half four should be understood as half the way to 4 from 3

So halvfjerdsindstyve is 3½*20 = 70

We use the same expression in Denmark with time i.e. 15:30 is "halv fire" which means half an hour to four, while in English the "laziness" cuts away the "past" and half four therefore means 16:30 i.e. half (past) four.

Cheers

solbjerg

[sunny staines]

solbjerg

 

no need to worry, I am sure the good Danish people will get over it in due course

 

Tak mange tak Fortsat god dag

 

[hows my danish]

[solbjerg]

Hi sunny

Looks like you speak Danish fluently :-)

Do you have vikings in your ancestry? :-)

Cheers

solbjerg

 

no need to worry, I am sure the good Danish people will get over it in due course

 

Tak mange tak Fortsat god dag

 

[hows my danish]

[sunny staines]

solbjerg

 

Yes English made up from celts[wales & scots], Ingaevones, saxons, angles, vikings,vandals etc not forgetting the Danes from northern europe.

[solbjerg]

Hi sunny

What do you call yourself then?

Gael, Welshman, Cornishman, Breton, Normannic or Nordic?

Probably some others sprinkled in there as well :-)

On my fathers side it is traceable until about 1600 - on my mothers side it is difficult to trace.

Cheers

solbjerg

 

Yes English made up from celts[wales & scots], Ingaevones, saxons, angles, vikings,vandals etc not forgetting the Danes from northern europe.

[sunny staines]

solbjerg

 

I was talking about the english in general we were invaded so many times in those days each group of invaders liked the place so much they stayed except the romans.

 

well I have got a scottish parent and a english one = british