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”
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?
Quatre vingt dix nuts lol gottem
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
Just ask the Danish how to “calculate” their word for 90, and you will consider the French approach simplicistic.
90 = Half fives.
50 = Half sixty.
70 = Half (I don’t even know how to translate this)
Four score and seven years ago…
…flows better and sounds grander than “Eighty seven years ago”.
“Four-point-three-five score years ago”
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.
I love having to use 4 words to describe the number 99 (cope)
So do French stoners just tell each other “80 dude” or “90 everybody” if its a big party?
And look how far we got without it, it’s all in your head buddy
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
Ask german how 9999 is written
But 70,80,90 are English numbers
70 = Sixty-ten? Ridiculous, it’s obviously half-fourths.
Because trolling predate the Internet.
What do you think “seven -ty” is. Seven ten
Yes, seven, ten times not sixty plus ten more
Ohhhhh. I misread that 👍
