← Back to context Comment by Xophmeister 11 years ago It kind-of-is, it's just not particularly well-formed/ambiguous linguistically. 4 comments Xophmeister Reply GotAnyMegadeth 11 years ago A bit like 99 in French: quatre-vingt-dix-neuffour twenties and ten and nine eitland 11 years ago I knew the Danes where counting in a crazy way but I didn't know the French did this as well.One more reason I'm happy English is the most common international language I guess. Xophmeister 11 years ago Number systems by complexity: http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/ts/language/number.html iak8god 11 years ago According to wikitionary [1] "four score and seven" was a commonplace way of saying "eighty seven" in 19th c. English.[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/four_score_and_seven_years_ag...
GotAnyMegadeth 11 years ago A bit like 99 in French: quatre-vingt-dix-neuffour twenties and ten and nine eitland 11 years ago I knew the Danes where counting in a crazy way but I didn't know the French did this as well.One more reason I'm happy English is the most common international language I guess. Xophmeister 11 years ago Number systems by complexity: http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/ts/language/number.html iak8god 11 years ago According to wikitionary [1] "four score and seven" was a commonplace way of saying "eighty seven" in 19th c. English.[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/four_score_and_seven_years_ag...
eitland 11 years ago I knew the Danes where counting in a crazy way but I didn't know the French did this as well.One more reason I'm happy English is the most common international language I guess. Xophmeister 11 years ago Number systems by complexity: http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/ts/language/number.html iak8god 11 years ago According to wikitionary [1] "four score and seven" was a commonplace way of saying "eighty seven" in 19th c. English.[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/four_score_and_seven_years_ag...
Xophmeister 11 years ago Number systems by complexity: http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/ts/language/number.html
iak8god 11 years ago According to wikitionary [1] "four score and seven" was a commonplace way of saying "eighty seven" in 19th c. English.[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/four_score_and_seven_years_ag...
A bit like 99 in French: quatre-vingt-dix-neuf
four twenties and ten and nine
I knew the Danes where counting in a crazy way but I didn't know the French did this as well.
One more reason I'm happy English is the most common international language I guess.
Number systems by complexity: http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/ts/language/number.html
According to wikitionary [1] "four score and seven" was a commonplace way of saying "eighty seven" in 19th c. English.
[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/four_score_and_seven_years_ag...