 Re: Cool wallpapers for Linux
On 2008-08-25, PanHandler wrote:
> alt.graphics.pictures.wallpaper
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> If we say "forty, sixty, seventy, eighty and ninety", why don't we say
> "twoty, threety and fivety"?
Twenty and thirty are still remotely connected to 2 and 3.
It's worst of all in France, as far as I know.
They only have that 'connection' for 30-60.
The rest is a mess.
70 is soixante-dix (sixty-ten), and they go on to 79 being soixante-dix-neuf
(sixty nineteen, or sixty-ten-nine).
80 is quatre-vingt (four twenty)
90 is 80 with the 10 added, likr in 70.
So 99 is:
four twenty nineteen, or actually four twenty ten nine
In Belgian French at least, 90 is nonante (conection to nine)
In Swiss French, 80 is octante (connection to 8)
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