I take no complaints on that subject from people who measure in inches, feet and ounces.
Attacking the person and not the argument is an ad hominem fallacy.
And yards…and Fahrenheits!
That F is zeroed out on fucking Brine makes it the most absurd thing.
Like OK there may be an argument for base 12 or base 16 (but not both)… But a mixture of water, ice, and sodium chloride?
Like OK blame a German I guess , but at least they were smart enough to decide, “Das ist stupid”
You angered the fascists with this one xD.
Nice! You’re my first elitist, eurotrash, shithead block of the day! Good work, Pierre!
Thank you, would you then like some info on the old British monetary system? Fartings, guineas, halfpences and the likes?
Four score and seven years ago…
…flows better and sounds grander than “Eighty seven years ago”.
“Four-point-three-five score years ago”
Quatre vingt dix nuts lol gottem
Basé et nombre pilé
Tough, though, throw, trough, thorough, through, thought.
I’m charging you with assault.
I love having to use 4 words to describe the number 99 (cope)
Captain Picard is French so he ought to be in a better position to answer the question than most of us.
Captain Picard and his brother were sent off to an old fashioned English boarding school by their luddite father that didn’t allow them to transport home in the evening or weekends, thus their English accents (my head canon).
Picard’s brother became indoctrinated into the same fucked up luddite philosophy and didn’t even allow 24th century fire safety technology in his home, leading to the death of him, his wife and his son due to a fire (actual canon).
we talking picard or stewart?
Considering we don’t have 24th century fire tech yet I’m guessing this is about Star Trek.
hey speak for yourself
Just ask the Danish how to “calculate” their word for 90, and you will consider the French approach simplicistic.
In a way, Danish is more clear than French, because all numbers between 50 and 90 are based on the vigesimal (base-20) system.
Oh yea, “half to five” aka 4.5 times 20. Very intuitive…
90 = Half fives.
50 = Half sixty.
70 = Half (I don’t even know how to translate this)
70 = halfway to the fourth twenty
In other words, three twenties are 60, four twenties are 80, halfway between them is 70.
Same for the other ones: 50 is halfway to the third twenty, 90 is half more than the fourth twenty.
Lol wait until you find out about the Danish counting system, truly unhinged.
Belgians are better at French than the French
Swiss people do. Belgians still use four-twenty, alongside septante and nonante, which is a whole other level of absurd
So do French stoners just tell each other “80 dude” or “90 everybody” if its a big party?
Back in Frances time these were large numbers. One million five hundred thousand one hundred eight, like ??? That’s how people in the future will look at you when you say that number in English. Stop counting people, our brains are not meant for this
Because trolling predate the Internet.
English doesn’t have proper words for 13 to 19.
I’d argue we do have proper words for 13-19, but don’t have proper words for 11&12
It comes from way before French. Some tribe, Celts, or whatever, call them Gauls, although it doesn’t really mean anything other that “people who live in that area according to the Romans”, counted in twenties. And that’s one of the things they’ve left us. For better or for worse.
That and Asterix.
Ask german how 9999 is written
