Sundray@lemmus.org to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoWhat does that even mean?lemmus.orgexternal-linkmessage-square163fedilinkarrow-up1664arrow-down118file-text
arrow-up1646arrow-down1external-linkWhat does that even mean?lemmus.orgSundray@lemmus.org to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square163fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareTrainguyrom@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoYou mean to tell me that the language where one says 3x20+7 to say sixty seven makes 6-7 mean something?!
minus-squareMajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 day agoExcuse me. But the French damn well have a word for sixty: soixante. And the counting keeps going normally right up to 70, which reads as Sixty Ten. That goes up to Sixty Nineteen, and THEN Four Twenties.
minus-squareTrainguyrom@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 day agoThat’s honestly so much more cursed than I thought! I seriously thought that in French it was just pure base20 but nope!
minus-squareKlnsfw 🏳️🌈@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day agoOf course! The French language is so meaningless that sometimes things actually mean something.
You mean to tell me that the language where one says 3x20+7 to say sixty seven makes 6-7 mean something?!
Excuse me. But the French damn well have a word for sixty: soixante. And the counting keeps going normally right up to 70, which reads as Sixty Ten. That goes up to Sixty Nineteen, and THEN Four Twenties.
That’s honestly so much more cursed than I thought! I seriously thought that in French it was just pure base20 but nope!
Of course! The French language is so meaningless that sometimes things actually mean something.