It finally happened: Danish person accidentally orders 10 containers of milk

[u/Groensagsfobier]

https://www.bt.dk/dagligvarer/her-kan-du-faa-en-liter-maelk-for-en-oere

“købmanden ved en fejl er kommet til at bestille en levering af ti containere med mælk om dagen - i stedet for ti kasser med mælk om dagen, skriver Sjællandske Nyheder.”

This reminds me of this sketch https://youtu.be/ykj3Kpm3O0g?si=ThUPe_kMNsI_L05H

[u/CheetaLover]

It is to be fair a hard language to understand, and a numerical system on another level.

[u/Dr_Hull → u/CheetaLover]

At 10 the numerical system is not harder than in most other languages

[u/birgor → u/Dr_Hull]

Yes it is, it's still Danish. But over 50 does it reach a whole other level of insanity.

[u/Dr_Hull → u/birgor]

The vast majority of small children I have ever met were able to count to ten in Danish without any difficulties.

Maybe you think it is hard because you are swedish, but I might be able to teach you. Just read the following out loud in Danish: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (I know this one is hard. You might be tempted to say en-ti but it is just ti). See now you can count to ten in Danish (like most small children around here can) and it wasn't that hard.

[u/birgor → u/Dr_Hull]

123456789,10 happens to be Arabic numbers in no specific language, but I get how numbers and words can get mixed up for a Dane. Any language with a completely arbitrary pronunciation is after all indistinguishable from pointless gibberish, just like your post here.

The problem is when every number is pronounced with a random throat sound, only differentiated by length and slight head twists, then does it get tricky.

Since written Danish as opposed to the spoken language obviously is a Scandinavian one not very different from Norwegian and Swedish is it no problem reading it.

It would be so much nicer for everyone if you started talking in the same way as you are writing!

[u/Dr_Hull → u/birgor]

And abc... happens to be letters from the latin alphabet, so there's no reason to point out the origin of the digits. Unless we switch the conversation to futhark or one of the other new Scandinavian alphabets (is it even possible to use these scrips on reddit?). We can also use futhorc since we are writing in English.

I didn't write out the numbers with letters as I didn't want to make it a reading challenge, but most of the small children I know or have known learn to read these numbers as some of the first words they learn to read

Small children can pronounce these numbers without problems, so if you train a little you might also be able to. Just try to read them out loud in Danish. You don't need to make any weird facial expressions. Would you like me to write the numbers again?

[u/AppleDane → u/birgor]

happens to be Arabic numbers

Yeah, the symbols used, not the names of the numbers, you... you... Swede!

[u/LoremIpsumDolore → u/birgor]

Let’s hear a swede say 777 without making it sound like a near-fatal choking accident.

[u/SunburnedSherlock → u/birgor]

Remove your Swedish tag and stop embarassing us.