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.
But 70,80,90 are English numbers
Belgians are better at French than the French
Septante, huitante et nonante
The correct way.
Parce qu’on a eu la Gaule trop longtemps !
Yeah Danish is a bit wild with numbers too.
“French” does indeed have them, it’s just that the French don’t use them. Luckily the Belgians do.
He shoots, he four-scores!
70 = Sixty-ten? Ridiculous, it’s obviously half-fourths.
Lol wait until you find out about the Danish counting system, truly unhinged.
What’s wrong about it?
Halvfjerds, half fourth. Clearly that’s seventy.
But it’s short for halvfjerdsindstyvende. Half fourth’s in twenties. Yep that’s seventy my friend
When I learnt Danish the number system legit took me far longer than anything else xd, maths classes were certainly interesting.
Quatre vingt dix nuts lol gottem
Basé et nombre pilé
Ask german how 9999 is written
Tough, though, throw, trough, thorough, through, thought.
I’m charging you with assault.
So do French stoners just tell each other “80 dude” or “90 everybody” if its a big party?
Pronunciation of words like fauteuil. French saw -euil and apparently decided to play a sick joke on the rest of the world.
I’m not sure what you mean, -euil is something like “-œij” which is perfectly regular.
That’s a good point. Very intuitively pronounced indeed. It would be absurd for someone not to know based on spelling alone.