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minus-squaremenaslinkfedilinkarrow-up7·5 months agono rules, no sens, only disdain L’Académie Française existed since the 18th century to make the language too complex “for the common and the women”
minus-squarehessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·5 months agoIs that when they decided to make counting past 70 complicated?
minus-squareKornblumenratte@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·5 months agoThat’s actually older than French itself - a relic from Gaulish.
minus-squaremenaslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agono, I’m afraid I could not shift the blame on this one. Particularly when french speakers in Switzerland and Belgium show alternatives for a long time
no rules, no sens, only disdain
L’Académie Française existed since the 18th century to make the language too complex “for the common and the women”
Is that when they decided to make counting past 70 complicated?
That’s actually older than French itself - a relic from Gaulish.
TIL, thanks
no, I’m afraid I could not shift the blame on this one. Particularly when french speakers in Switzerland and Belgium show alternatives for a long time