Me in high school french:
70: soixante-dix ohhh trippy, 60 10, why not start at 50, that’s strange so 80 will be soixante-vingt (60 20) right? … right?
80: quatre-vingt 4 20’s?
but why 60 20 and then 4 20?
Quatre-vingt blaze iet
Just ask the Danish how to “calculate” their word for 90, and you will consider the French approach simplicistic.
90 = Half fives.
50 = Half sixty.
70 = Half (I don’t even know how to translate this)
And look how far we got without it, it’s all in your head buddy
It comes from way before French. Some tribe, Celts, or whatever, call them Gauls, although it doesn’t really mean anything other that “people who live in that area according to the Romans”, counted in twenties. And that’s one of the things they’ve left us. For better or for worse.
Belgians are better at French than the French
Swiss people do. Belgians still use four-twenty, alongside septante and nonante, which is a whole other level of absurd
Septante, huitante et nonante
The correct way.
Afaik Belgians don’t use huitante, Swiss people do
But 70,80,90 are English numbers
“French” does indeed have them, it’s just that the French don’t use them. Luckily the Belgians do.
Lol wait until you find out about the Danish counting system, truly unhinged.
What’s wrong about it?
Halvfjerds, half fourth. Clearly that’s seventy.
But it’s short for halvfjerdsindstyvende. Half fourth’s in twenties. Yep that’s seventy my friend
I assume the name refers to the fact that you are halfway to the fourth twenty from the third?
When I learnt Danish the number system legit took me far longer than anything else xd, maths classes were certainly interesting.
Parce qu’on a eu la Gaule trop longtemps !
Quatre vingt dix nuts lol gottem
Basé et nombre pilé
Yeah Danish is a bit wild with numbers too.
70 = Sixty-ten? Ridiculous, it’s obviously half-fourths.
He shoots, he four-scores!
Tough, though, throw, trough, thorough, through, thought.
I’m charging you with assault.
