• @Whitebrow
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      555 months ago

      People seem to be angry at you for not knowing how the French count. My condolences. I found it funny tho. Have un upvote

      • @[email protected]
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        565 months ago

        Well, I DO know how the French count and compared to English it IS highly confusing. You can hardly convince me that saying “Four times twenty and ten” is as straight forward as saying “Nine tens”.

        And just to be clear: I’m not some Yankee or Brit with a superiority complex, no, I am German, and we have our own shitty version of this: Instead of moving along the digits from highest to lowest, as in “Four hundreds and two tens and nine”, we do “Four hundred and nine and two tens”.

        • @AA5B
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          Wow, it’s like US uses metric system for counting and y’all do “imperial counting”

        • @Beryl
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          • @[email protected]
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            But Basque isnt an Indo-European language its a Paleo-European isolate. Cultural mixing not with standing.

        • @[email protected]
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          25 months ago

          Instead of moving along the digits from highest to lowest, as in “Four hundreds and two tens and nine”, we do “Four hundred and nine and two tens”.

          English is less consistent, going from nine-teen to twenty-one. German stays consistent with its lower two digits.

          • @[email protected]
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            85 months ago

            From 11 to 19 is always kind of weird in many languages. In Italian you go from essentially saying “one-ten” “two-ten”…“six-ten” to “ten-seven” “ten-eight” “ten-nine”. Then it goes in like in English. Why? No reason ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

        • @[email protected]
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          The dude was saying people are angry at you because they don’t understand, not that you dont understand.

      • @Valmond
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        Soixante-quinze virgule neuf vs soixante-dix-neuf virgule cinq.

        Easy peasy!

        Edit: it wasn’t easy peasy.

    • @Beryl
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      It supposedly comes from originaly counting in base 20 ( a.k.a : vigesimal system) in some proto-european language. There are traces of it in breton, albanese, basque and danish for example. Even in english, there is a reminiscence of vigesimal, in the “score”, see for example Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address which famously starts with : “Fourscore and seven years ago…”, meaning 87 years ago.

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        As a frenchman who always found quatre-vingt weird but never bothered to find out why, thanks :)

        • @Beryl
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          35 months ago

          Mais je t’en prie :)

      • @perviouslyiner
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        In English is this why we say fifteen instead of tentyfive?

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      55 months ago

      No you can’t, because the source has written it in the usual hindu-arabic numerals as 79,5 and not as “soixante-dix-neuf virgule cinq”, you don’t need to pronounce the numerals to copy them.