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minus-squaremenas@lemmy.wtflinkfedilinkarrow-up6·24 days agono rules, no sens, only disdain L’Académie Française existed since the 18th century to make the language too complex “for the common and the women”
minus-squarehessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up3·24 days agoIs that when they decided to make counting past 70 complicated?
minus-squaremenas@lemmy.wtflinkfedilinkarrow-up2·24 days agono, I’m afraid I could not shift the blame on this one. Particularly when french speakers in Switzerland and Belgium show alternatives for a long time
minus-squareKornblumenratte@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·23 days agoThat’s actually older than French itself - a relic from Gaulish.
minus-squareBlackmist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·24 days agoThat’s four goddamn numbers in a row!
no rules, no sens, only disdain
L’Académie Française existed since the 18th century to make the language too complex “for the common and the women”
Is that when they decided to make counting past 70 complicated?
no, I’m afraid I could not shift the blame on this one. Particularly when french speakers in Switzerland and Belgium show alternatives for a long time
That’s actually older than French itself - a relic from Gaulish.
TIL, thanks
That’s four goddamn numbers in a row!