As a person who likes numbers "soixante-dix" or "sixty-ten" sounds stupid.
2007-02-12 13:40:04 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
And actually the word septante meaning seventy does exist, but it's only used in Belgium. And how'bout the germans who say zweiundvierzig ("two and forty") rather than vierzigundzwei ("forty two"). Languages are just different from one another.
2007-02-12 13:54:45 · answer #1 · answered by wm_h2002 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well,because I'm studying Linguistics & Phonetics,so the Linguisticso one of the rouls of French language includes that the sounds of the suffix /ant/ can't follow such a sequence of sounds ...try iy yourself..you'll find it so hardto be pronounced "notice that /p/ is silent& further more soixante-dix means "6 tens -ten" so it's "6tens and ten = 70" and it's much easier to be pronounced ...So it's all about the Phonetic system of the language .
Like impossible is "im" not the normal negative prefix "in" as in (incorect,inapropriate,inactive,....so on)
2007-02-12 13:56:03 · answer #2 · answered by Emmy 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
And furthermore, 80 is "quatre-vignt", or "four-twenty". 99 is "quatre-vignt-dix-neuf", or "four-twenty-ten-nine". There's actually a reason for the French language's weird handling of numbers, but I don't remember what it is.
2007-02-12 13:44:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No kidding - then 80 is "four twenties" - ever hear one of them give you a phone number? They switch from number group naming to individual digits - you can't follow it - my numbair is six hundred twenty seven oh one seventeen
2007-02-12 13:45:50 · answer #4 · answered by All hat 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, it's not stupid, it's exotic. Quatre vignt dix-neuf.
2007-02-12 13:45:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes... the frogs are pigs. :) With armpit hair and major stank--and that's the women.
2007-02-12 13:43:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋