Sundray@lemmus.org to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days agoWhat does that even mean?lemmus.orgexternal-linkmessage-square158fedilinkarrow-up1656arrow-down120file-text
arrow-up1636arrow-down1external-linkWhat does that even mean?lemmus.orgSundray@lemmus.org to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days agomessage-square158fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarefunkless_eck@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up22·9 days ago“my language” - this guy trying to sneak french in here without us noticing!
minus-squareKlnsfw 🏳️🌈@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 days agoIt was an attempt not to always emphasize the fact of being French. But obviously, even in good faith, humility does not suit us well.
minus-squareTrainguyrom@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 days 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-up5·9 days 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-up4·9 days 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-up2·9 days agoOf course! The French language is so meaningless that sometimes things actually mean something.
minus-squareHonytawk@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-28 days agoOh no! GET THEM! crash sound, cat screeching, sacre bleu, car horn
“my language” - this guy trying to sneak french in here without us noticing!
It was an attempt not to always emphasize the fact of being French.
But obviously, even in good faith, humility does not suit us well.
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.
Oh no! GET THEM!
crash sound, cat screeching, sacre bleu, car horn