You’re right. Only Denmark deserves 2+90.
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TheOakTree@lemm.ee 4 weeks agoSo do you mean to suggest “quatre-vingt-dix” just means 90 and doesn’t also mean “four-twenty-ten”?
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
vandsjov@feddit.dk 4 weeks ago
And the Germans
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Don’t they do 2+9*10?
vandsjov@feddit.dk 4 weeks ago
I probably misunderstood what you meant in your comment - I was just focusing on 2 before 90.
But yes, they do say 2 and 9 10 (2 + 9*10)
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 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.