• acockworkorange@mander.xyz
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    6 hours ago

    It’s fucking far off. I can’t stress how bonkers your number naming is. I speak two romance languages and two Germanic ones, and I’ll not try French because this and many other bullshittery.

    • Fushuan [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      34 minutes ago

      French took it’s number system from Basque, which is at least more consistent since iirc in French 70 is 60+10 while the consistent logic should be 3*20+10.

      Anyway, you say that twenty is far from twenty ->twen ten->second ten. 70 in Basque is hirurogeitahamar->hirur hogei ta hamar->hirugarren (third) hogei(twenty) eta(and) hamar(ten). It’s the same logic.

      The only reason you say it’s bonkers is because you don’t understand. Different = wrong. Lmao.

      Also, don’t fucking say that french is my language, I’m Basque Spaniard.

      Also, as the other commenter said, we are speaking English, do you understand how insane of a language it is? It’s a Frankenstein of several languages where words were imported while keeping the pronunciation, so there’s no fucking logic as to how you are to say things.

      How do you said “read”? No that’s wrong, I meant the past tense. Oh, it needs context?

      How do you say entrepreneur? Why are you saying it in French? Fuck logic.

      In Spanish you are able to pronounce correctly any word you read for the first time because the rules it has define strict pronunciation. Same for Basque, the only thing you might do wrong is intonation but most of the time it’s the second syllable. It’s fucking crazy that you both need to learn a word and how it’s pronounced in english, for every word.

      Oh, extra edit. If the Basque/French counting system makes the language too hard don’t touch spoken Chinese lmao, intonation changes completely words way more frequently than Papa/papá.

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      2 hours ago

      I think you’re allowing this to make you angrier than you should.

      You clearly speak English, which I think of as the mongrel child of two or three Germanic languages and a Romance one, and not in a good way, so I also think it’s the most fucked up and inconsistent one of the lot. The only thing it’s got going for it as a language is genderless nouns.