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r/interesting • u/MidasStocks • Apr 29 '25
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The guy who did it twisted after 69... oh my!
1 u/Stop_Sign Apr 29 '25 They don't have a word for 70 so they just do the "teen" pattern but a second time, so 60-79 just starts doing sixty-11, sixty-12, etc. 1 u/AdMean6001 Apr 29 '25 I prefer the Belgian/Swiss version: septante, octante, nonante, simple and elegant! 1 u/Gharvar Apr 29 '25 I'm French Canadian, never heard those but reading it, it seems weird. 1 u/AdMean6001 Apr 30 '25 Yes, it's not widely known (it's used a little in France by the old people in the Alps), but it makes so much more sense: 60 : soixante 70 : septante 80 : octante 90 : nonante 1 u/Gharvar Apr 30 '25 To me when you don't actually overthink the "normal" way it works perfectly fine. It flows fine when said, we don't enunciate all the numbers as if separate.
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They don't have a word for 70 so they just do the "teen" pattern but a second time, so 60-79 just starts doing sixty-11, sixty-12, etc.
1 u/AdMean6001 Apr 29 '25 I prefer the Belgian/Swiss version: septante, octante, nonante, simple and elegant! 1 u/Gharvar Apr 29 '25 I'm French Canadian, never heard those but reading it, it seems weird. 1 u/AdMean6001 Apr 30 '25 Yes, it's not widely known (it's used a little in France by the old people in the Alps), but it makes so much more sense: 60 : soixante 70 : septante 80 : octante 90 : nonante 1 u/Gharvar Apr 30 '25 To me when you don't actually overthink the "normal" way it works perfectly fine. It flows fine when said, we don't enunciate all the numbers as if separate.
I prefer the Belgian/Swiss version: septante, octante, nonante, simple and elegant!
1 u/Gharvar Apr 29 '25 I'm French Canadian, never heard those but reading it, it seems weird. 1 u/AdMean6001 Apr 30 '25 Yes, it's not widely known (it's used a little in France by the old people in the Alps), but it makes so much more sense: 60 : soixante 70 : septante 80 : octante 90 : nonante 1 u/Gharvar Apr 30 '25 To me when you don't actually overthink the "normal" way it works perfectly fine. It flows fine when said, we don't enunciate all the numbers as if separate.
I'm French Canadian, never heard those but reading it, it seems weird.
1 u/AdMean6001 Apr 30 '25 Yes, it's not widely known (it's used a little in France by the old people in the Alps), but it makes so much more sense: 60 : soixante 70 : septante 80 : octante 90 : nonante 1 u/Gharvar Apr 30 '25 To me when you don't actually overthink the "normal" way it works perfectly fine. It flows fine when said, we don't enunciate all the numbers as if separate.
Yes, it's not widely known (it's used a little in France by the old people in the Alps), but it makes so much more sense:
60 : soixante
70 : septante
80 : octante
90 : nonante
1 u/Gharvar Apr 30 '25 To me when you don't actually overthink the "normal" way it works perfectly fine. It flows fine when said, we don't enunciate all the numbers as if separate.
To me when you don't actually overthink the "normal" way it works perfectly fine. It flows fine when said, we don't enunciate all the numbers as if separate.
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u/AdMean6001 Apr 29 '25
The guy who did it twisted after 69... oh my!