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Kecessa , (edited ) in quatre-vingts

Meanwhile all french speakers understand each other perfectly well.

Do English speakers mistake people saying ninety-nine (99) for them saying ninety nine (90, 9)? No? How come? It’s the same thing as in french!

reeen ,

Right, but the tens numeral and the ones numeral being separate words that you add makes more sense than occasionally throwing a curveball like 20×4+5

Kecessa ,

But it’s still clear what we’re saying when we speak. 4 20 5 vs 4, 20, 5 vs 4, 20 5 vs 4 20, 5, non of it sounds the same when we speak.

kryptonianCodeMonkey ,

Do you not have the same issue with all numbers under 70? 62 or (60, 2)? And you still have that problem for numbers in the seventies too, it just looks weirder in decimals. "Did you mean (60, 11) or 71?

Even if there is a possible silver lining, it’s still arbitrary and weird.

Kecessa , (edited )

And in English it would be 71 or 70, 1. I’m just pointing out that this meme about french by english speakers makes no sense since it’s the same thing in english.

kryptonianCodeMonkey ,

I think you’ve missed the point entirely if that is what you think the meme was about

roon , in Brain is the best
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My brain read that as Brian

Spliffman1 ,
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Ever seen the Life of Brian? Great movie

roon ,
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I’ve seen the life of pi

nicky7 , in if the person who named walkie talkies named everything.

Cats would be furry purries.

southbayrideshare ,

Uno, dos, meow, meow, tres, cuatro!

Pretty little kitty chased a thing she saw.

Had a pouch of catnip and a feather boa

Furry purry, furry purry.

SpaceCowboy , in My favourite piece of Internet history
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Yeah actual baseball players have names way weirder than these.

niktemadur ,

Odrisamer Despaigne.
Now check this out: he played for the San Diego Padres, and his name contains all the letters needed to spell out “San Diego Padres”.

morrowind , in if the person who named walkie talkies named everything.
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This is actually a common pattern in urdu, though not for names.

Like “chai” means tea so :

  • “chai shai” = tea and related stuff
  • "khana wana" = food and related stuff
  • "paisay waisay" = money and related stuff

etc.

user1919 ,

it’s the same in hindi.

balderdash9 , in My favourite piece of Internet history
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Funny how the nationalities don’t go together. Italian/Jewish names mixed in with latino last names.

pythonoob , in Score

Had a girl ask me once if I was super religious just because I knew that AD = anno domini = in the year of our lord.

I don’t think I even knew how to respond.

kurogane , in Anyone interested?
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You also need to provide the kid that must be saved last minute, because they stupidly ran after their soccer ball, and their dumb ass is now in the middle of the road.

db2 , in Blue bird's leftovers for sale, the starting price for each item in the auction is $25

Pass.

Duranie , in YES

Purple Bag Syndrome for a fruity cocktail!

NOSin , in quatre-vingts
SharkEatingBreakfast , in Official Safety Memo
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Is this real? I so dearly want this to be real.

yumpsuit ,

It’s at least plausible. Have you seen the shitpost chops of the US Consumer Products Safety Commission?

Tb0n3 , in Official Safety Memo

His hands are way too close to the turtles head. They can REACH.

Blyfh , in quatre-vingts

I think this actually roots in the problems of conversion to base ten from base twelve. Not sure though, maybe I remembered this wrong.

DarthCluck ,

Being lazy and not going to look it up. I can’t help it to wonder if it’s also based in Sumerian’s base 60

monsieur_jean ,

It's base 20.

80 in French is 4 x 20. A long time ago, 60 was "trois-vingt", 3 x 20. We still have a hospital in Paris called "Hopital des Quinze-Vingts", 15 x 20 because it used to have 300 beds.

Blyfh ,

Oh, neat! Thanks for clearing this up.

Rediphile , in Here we go again

Like when YouTube introduced ads and everyone moved to Vimeo?

jimmydoreisalefty OP ,

Oh, didn’t even know that was a thing.

Thanks for pointing it out!

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