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• FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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• ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You’re right. Only Denmark deserves 2+90.

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  • vandsjov@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    And the Germans

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    • ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Don’t they do 2+9*10?

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      • vandsjov@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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)

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