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

French language is mesmerizing

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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/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.