• Kecessa
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    Meanwhile all french speakers understand each other perfectly well.

    Do English speakers mistake people saying ninety-nine (99) for them saying ninety nine (90, 9)? No? How come? It’s the same thing as in french!

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      Do you not have the same issue with all numbers under 70? 62 or (60, 2)? And you still have that problem for numbers in the seventies too, it just looks weirder in decimals. "Did you mean (60, 11) or 71?

      Even if there is a possible silver lining, it’s still arbitrary and weird.

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        And in English it would be 71 or 70, 1. I’m just pointing out that this meme about french by english speakers makes no sense since it’s the same thing in english.

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      Right, but the tens numeral and the ones numeral being separate words that you add makes more sense than occasionally throwing a curveball like 20×4+5

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        But it’s still clear what we’re saying when we speak. 4 20 5 vs 4, 20, 5 vs 4, 20 5 vs 4 20, 5, non of it sounds the same when we speak.