What a relief!

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• Worx@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  To be fair, it’s not like we were saying “one thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine”

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  • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Google translate gives me “Dix-neuf quatre-vingt-dix-neuf” for nineteen ninety nine.

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    • Feyr@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Close. Dix neuf cent quatre-vingt dix neuf

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    • SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, but that assumes they say it this way. They do not

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  • basxto@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Isn’t generally common to have two digit hundred numbers if they are more convenient / shorter to say than with thousand?

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    • Worx@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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

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    • SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      no

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Definitely not. Imagine what people must have thought of us, had we done that…?

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Do Mill what?

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  • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Do milligrams of LSD.

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    • Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Fuck miligrams. Do grams of LSD. Meet god.

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• Squirrelsdrivemenuts@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I was born in the nineties and just moved to France. It’s a real struggle.

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• CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Dix neuf

  Haha gottem

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• Soapbox@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • epicstove@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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  • jwmgregory@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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?

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• PoliteDudeInTheMood@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oh my god, this gave me flashbacks to French class in the 90s.

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• dbtng@eviltoast.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nixie agrees. She’s a bit sadistic.

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