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from 1 to 100, their highest number is 69. After that
70 = 60,10
79= 60,19
80 = 4 twenties
99 = 4 twenties, 19
 

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In French you have soixante for sixty.

Then after sixty nine instead of a word for seventy you have:

Soixante-dix (60 and 10)

Eighty is quatre-vingt (4 twenties)

And ninety is quatre-vingt dix (4 twenties and ten)

etc.

Its not every funny
 
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How the hell do they get anything done? :confused:

At least French kids learn what 4 times 20 + 19 = before American kids do.

After 69 their counting involves addition.
After 79 it involves multiplication
between 80 - 99 it involves multiplication and addition.


The French do not have a word for seventy, eighty or ninety.
 
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In French you have soixante for sixty.

Then after sixty nine instead of a word for seventy you have:

Soixante-dix (60 and 10)

Eighty is quatre-vingt (4 twenties)

And ninety is quatre-vingt dix (4 twenties and ten)

etc.

Its not every funny

Jeezus. Thanks for the explanation.
 

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At least French kids learn what 4 times 20 + 19 = before American kids do.

After 69 their counting involves addition.
After 79 it involves multiplication
between 80 - 99 it involves multiplication and addition.


The French do not have a word for seventy, eighty or ninety.

I'm not interested enough to do any research, but it wouldn't shock meif their children simply learned much more slowly to count to 100. Yhe children in my nursery school could count to 1000 when we were fewer than 3 years of age. We could read, too. I'll admit, however, I could not multiply. I don;t know if the other children could, or could not.
 

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I'm not interested enough to do any research, but it wouldn't shock meif their children simply learned much more slowly to count to 100. Yhe children in my nursery school could count to 1000 when we were fewer than 3 years of age. We could read, too. I'll admit, however, I could not multiply. I don;t know if the other children could, or could not.

I would not think it would be difficult for them because they do not know that what they are saying is addition or multiplication. I think counting is mostly learned through repetition.

I spoke about this with a Haitian girl once and she did not even realize that they had no word for 70, 80, or 90.
 

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The French do not have a word for seventy, eighty or ninety.

Oh they have 'em - they just don't use them.

septante - Wiktionary
huitante - Wiktionary
nonante - Wiktionary

:wink:

I'm not interested enough to do any research, but it wouldn't shock meif their children simply learned much more slowly to count to 100.

Well, in my experience they don't learn slower.

Because it isn't like that have to think about it as a multiplication. Quatre-vingt is just the word for eighty - the concept is the same - there is not multiplication involved - quatre-vingt-un, quatre-vingt-deux follows just as naturally as eighty-one, eighty-two. Same with soixante-dix really - it's just the way it's done - you say soixante and then count to nineteen. There's no extra mental leap needed.
 

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There's no extra mental leap needed.

I needed extra mental help to understand this thread... I honestly looked at it like four or five times before I could ascertain the actual meaning of it.

You damn intellectuals can give a good ol' middle class boy like me a headache with all of this foreign language and math work. :tongue:

Now I need a bong hit.