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minus-squaremenas@lemmy.wtflinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month 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-up0arrow-down1·1 month agoIs that when they decided to make counting past 70 complicated?
minus-squareKornblumenratte@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoThat’s actually older than French itself - a relic from Gaulish.
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