Sundray@lemmus.org to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoWhat does that even mean?lemmus.orgimagemessage-square150fedilinkarrow-up1617file-text
arrow-up1617imageWhat does that even mean?lemmus.orgSundray@lemmus.org to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square150fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareMajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up5·13 hours 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-up4·12 hours 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!