𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 days agoIt's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple?message-squaremessage-square60fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareIt's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple?𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 days agomessage-square60fedilink
minus-squareleftzero@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 days agoLook, we’re talking people who call ninety-nine “four twenty ten nine”; you can’t expect them to name things properly.
minus-squareTrainguyrom@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 days agoTo be fair, English has a bit of that too if you look at the first 20 digits One, two, three… Eleven, twelve, thirteen… Twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three… Thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three… If English was fully decimal the teens would simply be “Onety-one, onety-two, onety-three” but it’s not because fuck following conventions!
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 day agoIf you say onety one again we’re gonna have problems
Look, we’re talking people who call ninety-nine “four twenty ten nine”; you can’t expect them to name things properly.
To be fair, English has a bit of that too if you look at the first 20 digits
One, two, three… Eleven, twelve, thirteen… Twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three… Thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three…
If English was fully decimal the teens would simply be “Onety-one, onety-two, onety-three” but it’s not because fuck following conventions!
If you say onety one again we’re gonna have problems