Zali successfully evades a deeznuts joke then explains French numbers to chat

[@owitch]

Love is pain, that's why he's a Bandage.

[@TorManiak]

Being French, saying 99 doesn't register in my brain as maths. I just say the words, it's so much muscle memory that you just don't realize you're actively calculating numbers out loud here. 4x20+10+9 id what's basically said out loud, but being used to say it from childhood doesn't make you see that until you actually do the math with the numbers, even if you see the same words as other written numbers(quatre=4, vingt=20, dix=10, neuf=9, quatre-vingt-dix-neuf).

[@linleyne]

I'm french and I still don't understand why we do that

[@Morana-mori]

To confuse us Americans

[@meowyn333]

same here x_c

[@kieran1129]

It's because of the Gauls. We kept the way of counting that they had while other, like the Swiss or the Belgians, adopted the roman way.

[@mimichuchu3267]

When I studied french I hated studying it as much as I hated studying math, the difference is that in math at least I was good 😂

[@Morana-mori]

Day 135 of learning French with Zali

[@l11.a.person]

Has it already been?

[@Morana-mori]

@@l11.a.person honestly I have no clue. The days have run together and I don’t get enough sleep.

[@vcaesium]

"doesn't it makes sense :,)" 😂

[@minju8952]

"love is pain"

[@Erik_Emer]

Zali could easily avoid this by using the decimal system (septante neuf vaches, 79 cows) instead of the vigesimal system (counting by 20's, which only applies to 70 above, but only halfway for 70, soixante dix neuf vaches).

[@mangolie21]

79 cows in french is soixante dix neuf vaches (sit on these nuts..?). I don't get what vaches is supposed to sound like (pronounced vash)

[@Loxer150]

suck on deez nuts

[@yukisohma]

Wow never knew that. Interesting. Learning something from this clip

[@Somiixqr]

C'est dur ouais

[@megumegi]

Why

[@WhiteGuyGraal]

Why

[@Cryyyyyyyyys]

Because we hate making our own lives easier xD No seriously I have no clue, but I know that in some other French-speaking countries, they have equivalents that make more sense. For example, the French-speaking people in Belgium say 'septante' (70), 'octante' (80) and 'nonante' (90) instead of 'soixante-dix' (60+10), 'quatre-vingt' (4×20) and 'quatre-vingt-dix' (4×20+10). Theirs are based on the way the people who spoke latin said those numbers.

[@Erik_Emer]

@@Cryyyyyyyyys No one says "octante" anymore, though, but apparently as one of the two true numerals representing 80 derived from Latin, it's prescribed as "fine when doing arithmetic along with the pure decimal forms of 70 an 90." Saying octante is REALLY aged, and it'll be a sore thumb, especially since it doesn't reflect the modern word for 8, huit, while huitante does, so it's "a bit more" accepted.

[@Cryyyyyyyyys]

@Erik_Emer OK, thank you very much, I thought the difference between "octante" and "huitante" was regional Thanks for telling me

[@lilyhomes4967]

French be like : why not?