Comment on quatre-vingts

atlasraven31@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

• VanRijn29@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Dickensian English: in the year eighteen hundred four-and-thirty

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• barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Much more regular than English where you have seven-teen but then seventy-one. To be consistent you’d need to switch to either teen-seven or one-seventy.

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  • atlasraven31@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I’m okay with saying seven, ten-seven, twenty-seven, etc…

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