French is definitely weird in that it introduces multiplication, but the addition operands are still in descending order as with English. > I wonder how much o

French is definitely weird in that it introduces multiplication, but the addition operands are still in descending order as with English. > I wonder how much of those kinds of complications lead to higher IQ and higher education test scoring Probably not much. I doubt francophones are doing multiplication when they think of the number 80 any more than anglophones do addition when we think of the number 14. Rather, speakers presumably both memorize the names of each number and move on with life.