Sundray@lemmus.org to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoWhat does that even mean?lemmus.orgexternal-linkmessage-square163fedilinkarrow-up1666arrow-down118file-text
arrow-up1648arrow-down1external-linkWhat does that even mean?lemmus.orgSundray@lemmus.org to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square163fedilinkfile-text
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!
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!