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[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

You mean to tell me that the language where one says 3x20+7 to say sixty seven makes 6-7 mean something?!

[–] MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

That's honestly so much more cursed than I thought! I seriously thought that in French it was just pure base20 but nope!

[–] Klnsfw@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

Of course! The French language is so meaningless that sometimes things actually mean something.