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NounsAndWords 79 points 3 years ago

I almost missed the Spanish upsidedown semicolon

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csolisr 14 points 3 years ago

¿Wait what?

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jormaig 10 points 3 years ago

In Spanish we open and close all quotations. Like:

  • ¿Tienes cambio? (do you have change?)
  • ¡Me encanta! (I love it!)

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tchotchony 18 points 3 years ago

I don't speak Spanish at all, but I really wish more languages would adapt it. It's so much easier to interpret a sentence knowing it's meant to be a question or exclamation right from the start.

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Silviecat44 3 points 3 years ago

I think it looks weird, but to each their own

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csolisr 7 points 3 years ago

I mean, my native language is Spanish but thanks for the clarification to the rest of the audience

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jormaig 7 points 3 years ago

Lol no pillé la ironía perdooon 🙈🙈🙈🤣🤣🤣

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Hupf 3 points 3 years ago

🙃All of them?🙂

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Hupf -1 points 3 years ago

🙃All of them?🙂

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SolanumChillEse 50 points 3 years ago

Just started learning French only to find out you need a Bachelor’s in math just to count past 70.

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mamarguerat 24 points 3 years ago

In Swiss French we say « septante » (70) « huitante » (80) and « nonante » (90) which is better than counting by 20

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rclkrtrzckr 12 points 3 years ago

Swiss French doesn't count as French (like Schwiizerdütsch isch nöd Dütsch)

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phedolin 2 points 3 years ago

Es zellt als Russisch.. 🙃

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tchotchony 3 points 3 years ago

So does Walloon French.

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Zagorath 4 points 3 years ago

A couple of articles are telling me that Belgian French speakers use sepante and nonante, but not huitante? Is that the case?

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tchotchony 2 points 3 years ago

I think so, never used huitante before, but then I'm Flemish, not Walloon.

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burningmatches 9 points 3 years ago

English used to do this too. The most famous example is the first line of Lincoln’s Gettysburg address:

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

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joneskind 49 points 3 years ago

As a French, I understand this post and it hurts because it’s true.

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zosu 18 points 3 years ago

as someone who gave up on learning french because of those shenanigans, i feel validated

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ichmagrum 14 points 3 years ago

IIRC there's some French dialects (Walloon/Belgium French IIRC) that count normally.

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Synthuir 8 points 3 years ago

Oui, et les suisses aussi. Ils utilisent les mots ‘huitante’ ou ‘octante’, et ‘nonante’ pour écrire 80/90.

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dust_accelerator 3 points 3 years ago

J'ai appris quelque chose aujourd'hui! Merci

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konakona 26 points 3 years ago

programming x linguistics humor

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ophy 19 points 3 years ago

As a programmer and a linguist, this is the kind of content that really gets the happy chemicals flowing through my monkey brain

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theory 1 point 3 years ago

Actually, is there a linguistics lemmy instance or community?

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Wander 24 points 3 years ago

//German

Farbe="#Neunundneunzigdoppelefdoppela;"

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jvisick 16 points 3 years ago

I love that song!

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odium 3 points 3 years ago

Hast du etwas zeit für mich

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alexrepty 3 points 3 years ago

Dann singe ich ein Lied für dich

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Black616Angel 3 points 3 years ago

More like:

// German
Farbe = "#(9&90)FFAA";

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phedolin 14 points 3 years ago

German translation probably boils down to:

farbe = '#9FA²'

More efficient, saves half the characters!

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SteveTech 14 points 3 years ago

Jokes aside, #9FA actually works too.

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dodgy_bagel 3 points 3 years ago

#99FA9FFA9FAA?

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Hupf 3 points 3 years ago

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PalmTreeIsBestTree 13 points 3 years ago

I don’t how you teach basic counting at a young age in French without learning higher grade level math.

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Kiwy 12 points 3 years ago

Joke aside, it's not taught as 4 × 20 +10 but simply “90 is pronounced quatre-vingt-dix” — which kinda is a mouthful, but you rarely count to 90 as a kid anyway.

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PastorHaggis 10 points 3 years ago

Sounds like you were just a quitter. I counted to 100 all the time to show off.

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Lmaydev 1 point 3 years ago

I'm counting to 100 right now, fight me!

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jerkface 2 points 3 years ago

It's only 3.5 syLAbles, barely longer to say then "seventy".

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Nahvi 2 points 3 years ago

Same number of syllables is the letter "w" has in English.

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jerkface 1 point 3 years ago

If you add a little "uh" to the end of it, yeah.

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alr 1 point 3 years ago

Which surely works only until you need to say 91, which does not start "quatre-vingt-dix."

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somada2kk 11 points 3 years ago

As guy who hate French language and was learning in 1999 I can confirm it was pain to read the topic of lesson and the date. I was so happy when we switched to 2000.

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Obi 11 points 3 years ago

Whole generations of French students that have no idea they escaped having to write "mille neuf cent quatre-vingt dix-neuf" over and over again, in cursive of course.

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Methylman 2 points 3 years ago

Wait - is this why kids are dumber today ?

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blazarious 8 points 3 years ago

I’d argue it’s 4*20+19 in French, though, otherwise you’d probably need to change some of the other 99 to 90+9.

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SolanumChillEse 7 points 3 years ago

Nineteen is dix-neuf though. Which is literally ten-nine. 11-16 all have an equivalent word to the English “teens.” Quatorze for example instead of dix-quatre for 14.

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blazarious 10 points 3 years ago

Yes but 99 is also literally ninety nine, so the English ones should be 90+9 🤷‍♂️ don’t know about Spanish, though

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wama 7 points 3 years ago

Now do the same for: color-primary, color-secondary, button-color ....

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dakerDraws 7 points 3 years ago

Quatre-vingts-dix-neuf! 🤣

Or as my American-ass says, "Cat vank deez noofs."

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GewoehnlicherHamster 3 points 3 years ago

Takes notes

Next time meeting someone who might speaks french: Pontjur fellow frenchman, i need cat wank deez nutz of those poms

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snowe 7 points 3 years ago

I had to read a lot of the comments to understand what the post meant.

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ojmcelderry 5 points 3 years ago

Yeah. Honestly, I'm still not sure I understand it. ELI5?

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MouseWithBeer 10 points 3 years ago

The American is how it is supposed to be.

The British one has the "color" changed changed to "colour" due to British spelling of color.

The Spanish one has an upside down semi colon because in Spanish you write questions like this: ¿Is this an example question?

The French one is because the French number system makes absolutely no sense and to say 99 you have to say quatre-vingt-dix-neuf (meaning 4 x 20 + 19).

I hope this helps somehow.

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CanadianNomad 4 points 3 years ago

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MouseWithBeer 2 points 3 years ago

The image mentions British so I just mentioned Birtish. I am not American or even a native English speaker so don't come at me. Also I hope the Czechoslovakia part is a joke.

Your comment double posted btw.

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nintendiator 4 points 3 years ago

The American is how it is supposed to be.

The British one has the “color” changed

[citation needed]

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MouseWithBeer 2 points 3 years ago

I mean in code. Not sure how many programming languages are gonna accept "colour". Or maybe they do and I am wrong, tbf I never thought about it till now.

When it actually comes to the English language that's a different story.

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CanadianNomad 2 points 3 years ago

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AlternActive 9 points 3 years ago

French being french. They have no word for ninety for example, it's four-twenty-ten. Not bullshitting you.

As in Four (times) twenty (plus) 10.

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ImplyingImplications 5 points 3 years ago

Wait, spanish doesn't do the "we don't have a word for that number, just do math instead" counting system?? I thought the romance languages were tight!

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jalda 15 points 3 years ago

Well, there isn't a word for 99 in Spanish or English, in both languages we say 90+9, so that counts as maths.

If you are asking about words for 70, 80 and 90, that is a peculiarity of French, and not even all dialects, some dialects have septante, huitante/octante and nonante for those.

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ichmagrum 9 points 3 years ago

haha no

It's just the French being weird, there's even some non-France French dialects that count normally.

The Spanish might talk too fast to understand anyway, though.

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nyan 3 points 3 years ago

French is the only Romance language that does the count-by-twenties thing, as far as I know, but apparently some of the Celtic languages do it too. So French may have picked it up from Breton (or Gaulish or who-knows).

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alr 4 points 3 years ago

If you think French is bad...

// Danish
farve = "#(9+½+5)FFAA"

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rclkrtrzckr 1 point 3 years ago

Please elaborate. Any background on this?

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alr 6 points 3 years ago

The Danish word for 99 is nioghalvfems, which literally means "nine and half five." Which you could be forgiven for assuming meant 11½. The trick is that a) "half five" actually means 4½, as in half less than five, and b) it's implied that you're supposed to multiply the second part by 20. So the proper math is 9 + (-½ + 5) * 20 = 99.

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NoPolToday 2 points 3 years ago

Belgian and Swiss French speakers smirking...

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drekly 2 points 3 years ago

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Dohnakun 1 point 3 years ago

& german?

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Fordiman 1 point 3 years ago

Four score and nineteen reds?

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