• @Whitebrow
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    559 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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      569 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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        429 months ago

        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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          79 months ago

          But Basque isnt an Indo-European language its a Paleo-European isolate. Cultural mixing not with standing.

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        The dude was saying people are angry at you because they don’t understand, not that you dont understand.

      • @[email protected]
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        29 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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          89 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)_/¯

    • @Valmond
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      9 months ago

      Soixante-quinze virgule neuf vs soixante-dix-neuf virgule cinq.

      Easy peasy!

      Edit: it wasn’t easy peasy.