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It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple? (midwest.social)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To be fair, English has a bit of that too if you look at the first 20 digits

One, two, three... Eleven, twelve, thirteen... Twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three... Thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three...

If English was fully decimal the teens would simply be "Onety-one, onety-two, onety-three" but it's not because fuck following conventions!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

If you say onety one again we’re gonna have problems