• arymandias@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    Not to defend the French but the more correct representation would be 4 * 20 + 10 + 7.

    Also if you take this meme to the extreme it would be best to just say “97” which requires a unique word for every number instead of a system to construct them. So I guess there is a balance to be struck in number composition.

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      9 months ago

      also “ninety” is literally just a shortening of “nine ten”, it’s not like the french pronounce the whole thing either, i’d wager it usually comes out more like “katvandisett” which isn’t much worse than “ninetyseven”