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ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
They must have meant 9*10+2 for most of the countries. For French and Danish you would just remember the word for 90 instead of using logic to get there so they are actually quite 90+2.
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ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
They must have meant 9*10+2 for most of the countries. For French and Danish you would just remember the word for 90 instead of using logic to get there so they are actually quite 90+2.
TheOakTree@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
So do you mean to suggest “quatre-vingt-dix” just means 90 and doesn’t also mean “four-twenty-ten”?
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Well quatre-vignt-dix is literally translated to “four twenty ten”.
But when a french person hears that, they don’t hear those numbers, to them it just means ninety.
Just like an english person won’t hear. “four-ty”, and think “four-ten” “oh that’s 40”. Because “fourty” was originally “four-ten” (written differently because old english so I rewrote in modern for simplicity) and got shortened down.
To them “fourty” is just a word that means 40. Just like to metropolitan french people “ quatre-vignt-dix” is just a word that means 90.
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
You’re right. Only Denmark deserves 2+90.
vandsjov@feddit.dk 2 weeks ago
And the Germans
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Don’t they do 2+9*10?