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German exceptions are nothing compared to French exceptions. French is basically all exceptions and no rules! And some math (in French when you want to say 99,
by drno123 4y ago
German exceptions are nothing compared to French exceptions. French is basically all exceptions and no rules! And some math (in French when you want to say 99, you literally say four twentieths and 10 and 9).
- kingofpandora 4y agoPeople make a big deal about "quatre-vingt", but no French speaker thinks about that word as anything except "80". No one is doing multiplication in real time.
- throwaway821909 4y agoThe context is people learning the language though... this sort of efficiency will always come with familiarity, like how you can read 21:00 as 9 without thinking about it
- anton96 4y ago> like how you can read 21:00 as 9 without thinking about it Well... in French you can totally say twenty-nine instead of just nine (although nine also works). I think that is pretty rare among languages but I'm not sure.
- CRConrad 4y ago> I think that is pretty rare among languages but I'm not sure. Not rare among the ones I know, you can do that all over the Nordics and in Germany. So from my perspective you think wrong.
- shakow 4y agoLet's rather talk about German adjective declensions, a much more pregnant problem in German than having to memorize a weird number.