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[โ€“] 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.

[โ€“] 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!