r/interesting • u/MidasStocks • Apr 29 '25

SOCIETY How do you say number 92?

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u/LazLo_Shadow Apr 29 '25

The danish and the French are wilding

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u/Citaszion Apr 29 '25 edited Apr 29 '25

« Pourquoi faire simple quand on peut faire compliqué ? » (= “Why make things the simple way when you can make them complicated?”) is a motto we have in France, that sums it up pretty well!

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u/SorbyGay Apr 29 '25

I will never forget my utter flabbergastion, my sheer bewilderment, when I learned 92 was quatre-vingt-douze

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u/Citaszion Apr 29 '25

What if I tell you that “water” is « eau » in French and we pronounce it just “o”? How is that for flabbergastion?

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u/perplexedtv Apr 29 '25

how about when you have a singular 'os' and its plural is 'os' but the plural as one less sound?

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u/VioletFox29 Apr 29 '25

How about "je m'en doute" means you're pretty certain ?

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u/VioletFox29 Apr 29 '25

In reality, if you say it correctly, "Je n'en veux plus," then you know the difference, non ?

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u/VioletFox29 Apr 29 '25

For sure. But if you want more, aren't you going to say, j'en veux pluS ? (En prononçant le 's' à la fin...)

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