Tournesol 🌻🥞You have 99 problems ?
Learn French.
Voilà, now you have
4, 20, 10, 9 problems
Learn French.
Voilà, now you have
4, 20, 10, 9 problems
Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂@tournesol 😂😂😂 I "love" how French forces me to do math when pronouncing simple numbers
Leander Lindahl 🇪🇺@elena @tournesol yes, that's one of the things I loved about Italian when I studied it, simple grammar and no "funny business" with the numbers.
distincte&clare@leanderlindahl @elena @tournesol
I've asked that before in
this universe: In Germany (and beyond maybe) there's a club that tries to promote the reading "zwanzigeins" as equivalent to "einundzwanzig" which, of course, is standard German.
Anyone in favour of this idea?
@distincteclare @elena @tournesol i would have been when I was younger, but its so deeply engrained in me now, that I wouldn't want to change it. Nor quatre-vingt.
You should find out about Danish numbers and it will blow your mind 😂
The have 1-20 "normal". Then they do "German style" 21-49. One and twenty etc...
50 is three sets of 20 minus 10, then three sets of twenty for 60. Four sets of twenty minus 10 for 70. 4x20 for eighty and same for 90 (5 sets - 10) and one hundred is 5 sets of 20.
@leanderlindahl Quoting: “ 50 is halvtreds, short for halvtredje-sinds-tyve, "half third times twenty", implying two score plus half of the third score “
Excuse me whaaaaaat?!?
Please tell me that as a result Danes are better at math than other Europeans… Wow just wow!
@elena @distincteclare @tournesol I said it would blow your mind 🙂
Traditionally they've been a successful trading and merchant nation, so yes, I guess they know how to count.
Traditionally they've been a successful trading and merchant nation, so yes, I guess they know how to count.