{"id":41263,"date":"2003-12-30T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2003\/12\/30\/at-least-the-danes-know-how-to-count\/"},"modified":"2003-12-30T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-30T07:00:00","slug":"at-least-the-danes-know-how-to-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20031230-00\/?p=41263","title":{"rendered":"At least the Danes know how to count"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Even though Danish is impossible for me to pronounce, I do  appreciate their stubborn resistance to decimalization.  The number 71 is (I hope I get this right) &#8220;en og halvfjerdsindstyve&#8221;,  literally, &#8220;one and half-four-times-twenty&#8221;, or  more commonly, just &#8220;en og halvfjerds&#8221;.  (Those familiar with other Germanic languages recognize &#8220;half-four&#8221;  as meaning &#8220;three and a half&#8221;.)  <\/p>\n<p>  (I hope the Danes out there realize that my previous remarks about Danish  were all in fun.  I&#8217;m just fascinated with languages, especially those  in the Germanic branch.)  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though Danish is impossible for me to pronounce, I do appreciate their stubborn resistance to decimalization. The number 71 is (I hope I get this right) &#8220;en og halvfjerdsindstyve&#8221;, literally, &#8220;one and half-four-times-twenty&#8221;, or more commonly, just &#8220;en og halvfjerds&#8221;. (Those familiar with other Germanic languages recognize &#8220;half-four&#8221; as meaning &#8220;three and a half&#8221;.) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-41263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Even though Danish is impossible for me to pronounce, I do appreciate their stubborn resistance to decimalization. The number 71 is (I hope I get this right) &#8220;en og halvfjerdsindstyve&#8221;, literally, &#8220;one and half-four-times-twenty&#8221;, or more commonly, just &#8220;en og halvfjerds&#8221;. (Those familiar with other Germanic languages recognize &#8220;half-four&#8221; as meaning &#8220;three and a half&#8221;.) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}