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Everything ok Denmark and France? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/justpost@lemmy.world

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[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago (2 children)

French speaking Belgium straight up invented new words for 70, 80, 90 because even they don't like that French bullshit

[–] Eggymatrix@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Swiss french too has cut a stop to that nonsense

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Wait, i'm Swiss (german) and don't know how they count.

[–] Eggymatrix@sh.itjust.works 3 points 17 hours ago

Septante, huitante, nonanpte

[–] Leviathan@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They both came about in France around the same time, just influenced by Celtic/Germanic base-20 system or the romance base-10 system. Then France standardized to the ridiculous base-20 system and Belgium and Switzerland went with the correct system.

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

I can only assume by your statement that they use base 12