I almost missed the Spanish upsidedown semicolon
Just started learning French only to find out you need a Bachelor’s in math just to count past 70.
In Swiss French we say « septante » (70) « huitante » (80) and « nonante » (90) which is better than counting by 20
Swiss French doesn’t count as French (like Schwiizerdütsch isch nöd Dütsch)
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As a French, I understand this post and it hurts because it’s true.
I don’t how you teach basic counting at a young age in French without learning higher grade level math.
Joke aside, it’s not taught as 4 × 20 +10 but simply “90 is pronounced quatre-vingt-dix” — which kinda is a mouthful, but you rarely count to 90 as a kid anyway.
Sounds like you were just a quitter. I counted to 100 all the time to show off.
I’m counting to 100 right now, fight me!
I had to read a lot of the comments to understand what the post meant.
Yeah. Honestly, I’m still not sure I understand it. ELI5?
French being french. They have no word for ninety for example, it’s four-twenty-ten. Not bullshitting you.
As in Four (times) twenty (plus) 10.
If you think French is bad…
// Danish farve = "#(9+½+5)FFAA"Please elaborate. Any background on this?
The Danish word for 99 is nioghalvfems, which literally means “nine and half five.” Which you could be forgiven for assuming meant 11½. The trick is that a) “half five” actually means 4½, as in half less than five, and b) it’s implied that you’re supposed to multiply the second part by 20. So the proper math is
9 + (-½ + 5) * 20 = 99.
As guy who hate French language and was learning in 1999 I can confirm it was pain to read the topic of lesson and the date. I was so happy when we switched to 2000.
Whole generations of French students that have no idea they escaped having to write “mille neuf cent quatre-vingt dix-neuf” over and over again, in cursive of course.
German translation probably boils down to:
farbe = '#9FA²'More efficient, saves half the characters!
Jokes aside,
#9FAactually works too.
