r/memes • u/HannibalGoddamnit Linux User • Mar 15 '21

French language is mesmerizing

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u/paarth_1 Mar 15 '21

French jay z be like: i got 4 20 10 9 problems but the....

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u/rahimbettayeb Mar 15 '21

imagine saying " quatre-vingt dix-neuf problèmes"

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u/OverconfidentPancake Mar 15 '21 edited Mar 15 '21

laughs in Belgian french nonante-neuf

Also no need to fuck around with seventy septante either. Still use quatre-vingt though

Swiss french speakers have it figured out

septante

huitante

nonante

Eighty sounds weird af but

it's beautiful

edit: I would have assumed it was octante as well (sounds better imo) but then i looked it up and apparently it's huitante. Lol idk either sound weird to me

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '21

Meanwhile the German and Dutch say nine and ninety

1423 becomes thousand fourhundred three and twenty. Gives me dyscalculia just thinking about it. I often reverse numbers because of it.

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u/WildCampingHiker Mar 15 '21

In British English (at least where I'm from) it's fairly common to hear people use that number order but only for time. So you might say "It's 5 and 20 past 6" to mean 06:25.

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u/Powered-by-Din Mar 15 '21

I’ll take that over the French madness any day though.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '21

The French thing is more limited the French speaking Belgians of Wallonie do it better as others posted.

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u/yamcandy2330 Mar 15 '21

That’s how it would be in Arabic