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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] PastorHaggis 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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