• @SolanumChillEse
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    501 year ago

    Just started learning French only to find out you need a Bachelor’s in math just to count past 70.

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      1 year ago

      In Swiss French we say « septante » (70) « huitante » (80) and « nonante » (90) which is better than counting by 20

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      91 year ago

      English used to do this too. The most famous example is the first line of Lincoln’s Gettysburg address:

      Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.