Subject | Re: Even *MORE* Scandinavian linguistics; was: Republicanism still an offence in England? |
From | Raven |
Date | 2002-05-16 23:35 (2002-05-16 23:35) |
Message-ID | <rGVE8.291$Fm5.5180@news.get2net.dk> |
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Newsgroups | alt.fan.tolkien |
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Followups | Henriette Frans (11h & 36m) Troels Forchhammer (17h & 10m) |
Ooh, that's tricky. So is "fems" five score? It reminds me of the way Germans tell the time. "Halb vier" (half to four) they say, for half past three. It makes catching trains interesting if you're a foreigner!"Fems" for "a hundred" is just my own little joke. Danish for five score is "hundrede". But in Scandinavia we also say "halv fire" for "half past three". I don't know if my memory is faulty, or it *is* possible to say "half four" in English as "half past three".