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p100sch14465y@Stuxnet part of Switzerland speaks French too and the german speaking students (I once was one of them) have to learn French because of it.
But we were allowed to use Swiss French dialect and instead of soixante dixe-neuf (60 + 19) up to quatre vingt dixe-neuf actually had distinct names like septant (70) or nonont (90). -
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Spanish is a close second, needing a different way to express the same numbers depending on which country you're in. -
@rutee07 lol... What language is that!? I'd luv to learn it! Wait... "Awesome" is an English word 🙂
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@cafebabe btw the French only changed to long scale in 1961, and the British changed to short scale in 1974.
In Russia we call PS/2 “пс пополам”, literally “ps divided by two”. Reminds me of French numbers system where they call say 99 “quatre vingt dix neuf”, literally a “four times twenty plus ten plus nine”
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