Nixie agrees. She’s a bit sadistic.
Oh my god, this gave me flashbacks to French class in the 90s.
Of all the things the French tried to “fix” during the revolution, it amazes me that they didn’t try to simplify the way they say large numbers. Or if they did, that it didn’t stick.
I am trying to learn French, and haven’t got into large numbers yet, but I know about this, and I am dreading it.
They invent the metric system, the beautiful base 10 system that makes math and measurements easy.
…but didn’t apply anything similar to how they say numbers.
it’s just a different base system with some extra quirks thrown in that’s been shoehorned into a decimal society. it isn’t too difficult once you know the story of how french language got there, you feel?
Dix neuf
Haha gottem
To be fair, it’s not like we were saying “one thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine”
Isn’t generally common to have two digit hundred numbers if they are more convenient / shorter to say than with thousand?
In America, yes. In the UK, no (although it is getting more common with younger people I find)
I heard a theory that it’s because Americans have $100 bills, whereas the UK only goes up to £50. So counting up in hundreds is more natural in America
Google translate gives me “Dix-neuf quatre-vingt-dix-neuf” for nineteen ninety nine.
Close. Dix neuf cent quatre-vingt dix neuf
isn’t that nineteen hundred ninety nine?
Yes, both would work.
Definitely not. Imagine what people must have thought of us, had we done that…?
I was born in the nineties and just moved to France. It’s a real struggle.
Do Mill what?
Do milligrams of LSD.
Fuck miligrams. Do grams of LSD. Meet god.
A literal gallon of LSD. I don’t even know where to get it because I never leave the lookout.
