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I'm European. I'm not talking about American cars.

And it's also a joke with a bit of truth to it. They do require much more care so they're more often in the workshop than, say a Toyota.

Der skal jo også være plads til en lille genstand eller tre, det er jo kun mandag én gang i ugen ;)

Det er nok også et selvmål at jeg er flyttet så tæt på spiritushandleren, men når livet giver dig citroner, så laver du sgu en Whiskey Sour! Denne udgave er endda sund for både sjæl og krop! Der er jo trosalt et bær i den ;)

We don't really learn the reason, we just memorise the word for the number. Kinda like you know the word "dog" means a four legged cute creature, but not why the name is "dog". The old rules are not something we are teached, I just got curious after a confused foreigner made me think about the system for a second :p

Tak for de fine ord! Det var også lidt aggressivt at starte ugen ud med to Whiskey Sours må jeg erkende, men det må være prisen for ikke at nå det i weekenden :p

Halvfjerds for 70 but yes. Firs is 80 though, so that doesn't make in much easier.

Fjerde = fourth, fire = four. That makes "half to the fourth" become "halv til fjerde" or "halvfjerds" while "four times twenty" becomes "firsindstyve" and shortened to new Danish "firs"

BMW's are famously known to be in the workshop more often than on the road. My friend's BMW had a type of self-cleaning oil. All he has to do is top off the oil once a month. Just ignore the stain on the parking lot, it's not oil.

It's not like a BMW is more reliable.

Yeah, it's kinda the difference between saying "the clock is currently half past twelve" (the English way) and "the clock is currently half to one" (which we say in Danish and probably in a wealth of non-English languages too).

Correct.

• Half to the second (halvanden, still in use today) = 1.5
• Half to the third (halvtredje) = 2.5
• Half to the fourth (halvfjerde) = 3.5
• Half to the fifth (halvfemte) = 4.5

And so on. You might notice that I sometimes write it like "halvfemte" and other times "halvfems". The latter is just the way it was spelled when used in a combined word (another fun quirk in Danish that we inherited from Germanic this time!). 90 is today spelled just "halvfems".

No, we use the same numeral symbols as everyone else. We just pronounce it in the most unintuitive manner possible.

I can imagine that we once had symbols representing the base 20 system but standardised at some point to decimal symbols. I though haven't encountered any piece of history to back that up.

Greetings from Denmark! I've bought a Canadian whiskey to see if it's possible to make good cocktails with in place of Bourbon. That is probably my most difficult boycott of them all... Man's gotta have his alcohol.

We actually still say "halvanden" in Danish too. Everything else is not used (except for halvfems which means 90...)