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Re: Norwegian: Bokmål vs. Nynorsk

#161

Post by samus » Fri, Jan 19, 2024, 5:34 PM UTC

Tor3 wrote: post #160

samus wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A sibling commenter mentioned that there is a special word for "age of twenty"

That's in the "counter" or ordinal number area. Numbers themselves are extremely regular: 20 is just "to-ten". The age of twenty is considered a very special occasion in Japan, and celebrated semi-publically (20 used to be when you became a legal adult, but now you can at least vote when you're 18). Thus that event is called hatachi, はたち, and is from the traditional number / counting system ("hata"=20). But it is als…

Thanks for the explanation. Yes, there are exceptions, but they really don't seem to be such a big deal. Chinese is even more regular. Only three classifiers and 兩 vs. 二 are confusing at first.

Re: Norwegian: Bokmål vs. Nynorsk

#162

Post by jwr » Fri, Jan 19, 2024, 7:38 PM UTC

sburud wrote: post #151

jwr wrote: post #129

Which one should I support in my (automatically translated) SaaS?

Neither. Almost all Norwegians understand English, and automated translations of single words without the surrounding context are so shitty it becomes hard to understand without mentally translating back to English. Edit to add: see also the "postcode file" post about Windows 11 from a few months back.

My automated translations do have context and aren't bad at all. Not perfect, but not crappy either.

Re: Norwegian: Bokmål vs. Nynorsk

#163

Post by samus » Sat, Jan 20, 2024, 5:29 AM UTC

samus wrote: post #161

Tor3 wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's in the "counter" or ordinal number area. Numbers themselves are extremely regular: 20 is just "to-ten". The age of twenty is considered a very special occasion in Japan, and celebrated semi-publically (20 used to be when you became a legal adult, but now you can at least vote when you're 18). Thus that event is called hatachi, はたち, and is from the traditional number / counting system ("hata"=20). But it is als…

Thanks for the explanation. Yes, there are exceptions, but they really don't seem to be such a big deal. Chinese is even more regular. Only three classifiers and 兩 vs. 二 are confusing at first.

*the classifiers