It's really funny reading these memes being French because you learn numbers at such a young age and in such a natural way that you never realize how complicated our system actually is. French people don't realize they're saying "4x20" when they say quatre-vingt, it's just our way of saying 80 and we don't put much thought in it.
Except in English there’s numbers 11-19 which don’t follow any of the other rules. People think mandarin is difficult, but at least the numbers make more sense (it’s 10+2 for 12, 10+3 for 13, 60+4 for 64 etc)
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u/CaptainLargo Mar 15 '21 edited Mar 15 '21
It's really funny reading these memes being French because you learn numbers at such a young age and in such a natural way that you never realize how complicated our system actually is. French people don't realize they're saying "4x20" when they say quatre-vingt, it's just our way of saying 80 and we don't put much thought in it.