Comment on Anon is French

Corndog@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The funny thing is that in Switzerland they commonly say nonante neuf. So it’s not like there is no word for 90

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  • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Someone tried to improve the French language and predictably the French were having none of it.

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    • Hadriscus@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      not in my jardin !

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• Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because way back when, before sensible systems, they used base-20, and despite now running base-10, the base-20 is stuck in the language.

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  • Asetru@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    English has “twenty-one”, but no “onety-one”.

    But you have teens? Thirteen, fourteen etc? It’s just that a dozen was kind of special, so eleven and twelve are kind of irregular, but afterwards it’s just ordinary base 10, isn’t it?

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    • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But the endian switches for the teens — twenty three is “tens place ones place,” but thirteen is “ones place tens place.”

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    • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well, English does. Not my native language.

      Yes, my point exactly. No “onety-one”, because “eleven”.

      Same with other languages.

      But “thirteen”, “fourteen” etc, you think are as regular as “twenty one”, “thirty three” “forty five”?

      It is base-10 all the way through, but I’m just pointing out that probably at one point in history, even other languages, for some reason, counted 1-20 differently than 20+ numbers and they sort of stuck.

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• Natanael@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The Danish are similarly bad with numbers as the French

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  • noughtnaut@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We’re not bad with numbers, just at naming them. 😉 But that’s why we pretty much always use abbreviations.

    Abbreviations. Of numbers. Don’t think about it. 😅

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• DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My ass will know I ran out when the panic fire stops working and not one second before. And probably several after.

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• Reddfugee42@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wait til you find out how Abraham Lincoln counted the passage of time…

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