When an American criticizes the French Number System - REACTION - LOL!!!!
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- Опубликовано: 23 сен 2024
- Quand un Américain critique la façon de compter de la langue Française - REACTION - LOL!!!!
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You can't be mad when it's funny
French here, I saw this one before. It's funny every time I see it. And so very true.
We should adopt the number system from northern France and Belgium wsith septente and nonente instead of this complicated shit we use.
@@thomaseyrignoux9791 yes and no. This particular way of counting is a cultural tag. There are reasons and some historical background behind each and every weirdness
@@thomaseyrignoux9791 Les littéraires sont fous on aurait jamais du leur laisser le langage !! Comme l'autre peu justifier de garder un bug débile par "culturelle / historique".
La littérature est importante pour l'art et plein de truc mais sa m’insupporte les gens qui veulent conserver des bugs. Je suis d’accord y a plein de trucs comme ça qu'on devrais modifier, et c'est enrichissant de d’amélioré grace au autres pays francophone.
No dont say those kind of things
@@tiper2107 Comment on fait pour le quatre vingt ? Vu que les Belges ne disent pas "octante" ??
I am French and I can't stop laughing. He's fun and he's right
Non... il n'a pas raison ! Le calcul mental est plus rapide avec ce système.... si tu tiens une caisse, tu sais tout de suite combien de billet de 10 ou 20€ tu dois recevoir ou rendre !!!
🤣🤣🤣Pareil, je suis Français, j'ai rigolé aussi. Par contre, les Belges disent septante pour 70 et nonante pour 90. Seuls les Suisses disent huitante pour 80.
@@fabricerubio1070 ??? Pas tout compris !!
@@nombretau5590 c'est juste des eretique x)
@@cissouille3222 97= (4×20) + 10+7 soit 4 billets de 20€, 1 billet de 10, à voir ce qu'y t'arrange pour les 7... 🫠
I’m French and I can say this guy is good!😂 He can be a comedian! 😂
The poor guy doesn't understand that "seventeen" comes from seven and ten, and counting is thus practically identical in French and English...
With one difference, the concept of teenagers doesn’t work in French (and other Romance languages, I think). It works in other Germanic languages though (Dutch, German, Swedish, etc). However, some Germanic languages have their own translation (Dutch 13, 14, 15: dertien, veertien, vijftien - teenager: tiener) whereas others like German just use the English word directly.
@aphextwin5712 Exactly, in French teenager is (more or less, it's not an exact fit) "adolescent", directly from Latin.
teenagers quite litterally means "those getting older starting from 10" (ten agers).
In fact, France, Spain and Italia have same build for numbers from 17 to 19... So, it's propably a latin legacy.
@darkyannouche It's also the case in German from 13 to 19, and in Russian from 11 to 19. Maybe it's an Indo-European thing?
When we says "quatre vingt dix" (90) for us it's like one number we didn't even think it was 4*20 +10 😂😂
It is not like that in Belgium or Switzerland (both also talking French). They say 70 = septante; 80 = octante and 90 =nonante. Which some French from France found "coutryside sound", two centuries ago :D
@@deck614 oui mais c'est moche a l'oral 🤣
@@deck614 quatre-ving-dix-huit c'est beaucoup mieux que nonante-huit. Fin du débat.
Ont est Français ils peuvent pas comprendre
@@backintimealwyn5736 je suis français, je trouve nonante/octante & septante bien mieux (oral ou pas). Bref, pas fin du débat ;)
IM FRENCH lets talk about the metric system versus your feet inch and yard LOL
I was about to comment this but you beat me to it xD...
C'est clair qu'il y a de quoi dire!!
et leur degres basé sur la temperature du sang de cheval
@@jean-mauricelozic5166 Pardon ?
@@aelitastone5629 oui, c'est la température du sang du cheval. Ne cherche pas logique. Quand au fait qu'il soit mort c'était juste après le décès qu'il mesura la température de ce dernier mais je n'arrive plus à trouver une source fiable qui le confirme donc ne pas prendre le fait qu'il soit mort au sérieux jusqu'à troucer une source sur
@@aelitastone5629lire l’article sur Wikipédia à propos des degrés Fahrenheit. Non source, mais il y a bien une histoire de sang de cheval.
Entendre quelqu'un compter jusqu'à 100 ne m'a jamais fait autant rire 🤣
"Under the influence of pre-Indo-European languages, French has preserved vestiges up to the present day, in the numerals. In the Middle Ages, we find the forms vingt and dix (30), deux vingt (40), deux vingt and dix (50), trois vingt (60), etc. An old attestation, "VII vinz liverez and IIII", in the Laws of William the Conqueror, in the 11th century, may suggest a Norman origin, the icésimal system also being found in Danish. However, linguists traditionally lean towards a heritage from Gaulish, modern Celtic languages having or having had a numeration by twenty. But the tens greater than twenty are in reality unknown in Gaulish, with the exception of a form, perhaps Latinized, for "thirty", but this form is not vicesimal. The Quinze-Vingts hospital, founded in Paris in 1260, which originally had three hundred beds, also bears witness to this use."
This man’s really funny! The way he turns this made me laugh my ass off
oui en france nous naissons mathématicien, c'est génétique 🤣. Merci de m'avoir fait rire, c'est hilarant, j'ai adoré ça !
I am French. Most of us who don't like Americans hate two things: Americans who think their country is the best and that the other doesn't matter, and American foreign policy, which is responsible for so many wars and coups.
But as long as you're not arrogant, we don't really have a reason to hate you, because we know how different a people can be from their politicians.
I am French (although my name is Spanish), and I know that history tells us that the French have been arrogant too... Powerful nations tend to be this way ... colonies, etc.
@@pacofgarcia5998 have been=no more
I am French and, indeed, I can't stop laughing. This guy is great!
The reason of this crazy counting system is historical. It is a mix of two counting systems with different radix; the roman one (radix 10) and the gallic one (radix 20). The Gallic one also remains in English counting system with the number from 10 to 19 (Eleven, twelve,... ).
the way he was throwing those jabs made my french face smile the whole video
Long story short : those numbers are because Gauls and Celtic culture passing through the ages.
In most of western cultures, you count with 10 as a unit (the word decade for example), gauls used the 20, so that's why the 4-20. A legend says because romans were counting with their hands fingers. Gauls were counting with hands and feet fingers.
Don't know if it's true but coming from the same "people" whom invented the metric system with a 10 based unit, it's kinda funny and ironic.
497698 = 4 100 4 20 10 7 1000 6 100 4 20 10 8 😅
omg lol
wesh vas-y donne ton 04
Or: quatre cent quatre-vingt-dix-sept mille six cent quatre-vingt-dix-huit 😁
@@tassoskostis5720 Et moi qui en commençant le chinois trouvais leur chiffres difficiles XD. J'avais pas réalisé avoir pire de base.
@@aelitastone5629le truc marrant en chinois, C est le 10 000, résultat, il faut parfois faire répéter car la conversion en français se trompe d un facteur 10 😁
Fun fact: during the French Revolution, some mathematicians were pushing for going to base 16, because it would be so much more logical from a pure mathematics standpoint. Not even the French revolutionaries were insane enough to try to make that happen, but just in case, they did make sure that in French every number up to 16 had its own unique name.
You know, just in case people eventually decided that base 16 was a good idea for everyday math.
Base 12 would be best though, wouldn't it?
Can be divided by 2, 3, 4 and 6.
16: divided by 2, 4, 8 sure... But that kind of sucks in comparison
@@a.baciste1733 Computing.
as we count in base 10 with the metric system no problem
@@fairdav Not sure this was considered by French revolutionaries though?
Fun fact: everywhat you wrote is pure lies.
The base 16 system was created 60 years AFTER French Revolution by a swedish guy,John Nystrom. And this system started to be used only in the 20th century,when computers were invented.
The french revolutionnaries didn't give names to every number, as the french language already had names for the numbers for centuries. Yes,mathematics existed in France long time before the Revolution...
On contrary,base 10 was the motto of the french revolution,so they set up the metric system to simplify everything and to get rid of all these archaic sytems that only 3 countries in the world still use (Liberia,Burma and USA). So who is insane?
Le pauvre gars en pleine dépression du calcul français 🤣
As a matter of fact, other french speaking countries of Europe like Belgium or Switzerland have a real 70, 80, 90... but for France, it goes all the way back to Gauls. They were counting in base 20, not in base 10, hence the 4x20 for 80 or the 4*20+10 instead of 90 :) In Belgium quatre-vingt dix would be said nonante which, indeed, makes a lot more sense in our modern base 10 world. That was a minute of a standard "mister know it all" in RUclips comments, thank you for your attention :)
I would add that Romandie (French-speaking Switzerland) is divided regarding the pronunciation of 80: "quatre-vingts" is preferred in the cantons of Geneva, Jura, and Neuchâtel, while "huitante" is used in the cantons of Fribourg (where "octante" is very rare), Vaud, and Valais.
Not really. In Belgium it's septante instead of soixante-dix, nonante for quatre vingt dix, but it's still quatre vingts. And in Switzerland it will depend of the canton, Lausanne will say huitante, Geneve will say quatre vingts for exemple. Overall more swiss says quatre vingts than huitante.
The _Helvetii_ were Gauls
Did you know that the farenheit system is based on the temperature of horse blood?
Very precise as a reference🤣🤣🤣
grand fou rire merci beaucoup .
Swiss and Belgium people speaking french dont use this system. We use the old fashion way. It's more logical.
Ce qui est drôle, c'est que les formes en "soixante-dix" et autre sont antérieurs aux formes type "nonante" et autre. Donc on devrait plutôt dire que ce sont les français qui ont gardé l'ancienne forme en partie, là où les autres francophones l' ont totalement abandonnée
@@TorvalAwakened4662 Le fait est que c'est un non sens. Pour le calcul rapide par exemple. Si tu commence par entendre soixante... ton cerveaux se met en base 6. Puis tu rajoute un 10... qui fait 7... Pas étonnant que la France à des soucis de comptabilité. :)
@@yandumont le fait est que ça repose sur une base 20 niveau calcul, donc ça a un sens. Les babyloniens comptaient en base 16 et pourtant, ils ont fait les jardins suspendus. Donc ton argument est frauduleux
Non parce que c’est toujours marrant de les voir galérer avec un nombre de plus de deux chiffres. Mais je ne suis pas objectif, je suis un méchant-Français -cynique.
@@yandumont sauf qu’à l’école primaire on doit apprendre, par cœur nos tables de multiplication, jusqu’à 10X10, ce qui inclut le X7 et le X9, ce qui aide pas mal pour certains calculs.. mais l’anglo-saxon est ainsi, il croit détenir la vérité. Cependant les Suisses et les Belges sont bien plus logiques, c’est vrai.
Super drôle, ça prouve à quel point on est spéciaux !!!
Après, on a aussi le verlan qui rend fou. Le français est assez difficile à apprendre et on rajoute une couche en inversant les mots 😂
French love Americans, but if you forget to say the secret password "Bonjour", all the doors will shut in your face.
Excellent !
Il est marrant le conducteur, il explique très bien la façon de compter en France.
4-20 apparently dates from the Gauls where they used a base 20 system, we also said 6-20 for 120 but this disappeared over 300 years ago. You can still see it in old literature books
The base 20 system is still the one in the modern celtic brittonic languages (mainly Welsh, Cornish & Breton).
@@MartialBoniouits was probably everywhere in europ.
In france officially they have done decimal system since longtime but folk continued to use a mixed in current language. So finally a kind of mixed system have been used.
Salut je l ai vu il y a 2 ou 3 ans et je me suis pissé dessus de rire il est excellent et montre la complexité de la langue française même dans les maths. Merci pour cette vidéo j en pleure encore à chaque fois que je la regarde .big up for you😂😂
J'avais jamais réalisé jusqu'à présent nos histoires de nombres XD. C'est vrai que d'un point de vue extérieur ça doit être dur et aussi logique qu'illogique.
Coz france had a differents languages and peoples in the long histories in France
Very funny ! Ce gars est vraiment drôle ! 👍
J'adore tes vidéos : elles apportent beaucoup de légèreté et de bonne humeur !
Have a good day !
Demain, on lui parle de sept cent soixante-dix-sept mille sept cent soixante-dix-sept 😁
Et là il,fera un AVC 😂
Quid de quatre-vingt dix neuf mille neuf cent quatre vingt dix neuf ??
il est tres fort, j'adore, et c'est tellement vrai, les chiffres c'est pas forcement simple
the funniest thing is that he says he learnt Spanish at school and that in Spanish it's exactly the same method for counting
Not for 70, 80, 90.
This is our legacy. In the Middle Ages, people counted in packs of twenty: twenty-ten (30), two-twenty (40), two-ninety (50), three-twenty (60), three-ninety (70), eighty (80), ninety (90). The origin of this count would go back to the Celts, who would have influenced the Gauls. On the other side of the natural borders, the French-speaking people, influenced by roman culture have adopted the Roman way of counting by ten.
Yes but it depends on your culture, some would count in packs of ten, but the french used to count in packs of twenty because they also used their toes to count and not only their fingers.
Oui mais, honnêtement, ça reste un système de merde. Je pense que les belges s'en sortent mieux.
il y a aussi l'histoire des douzaines (qui ne reste que pour les oeufs et les mois de l'année) car au marché les gens comptaient avec le pouce sur les phalanges (3) des 4 autres doigts, en plus le nombre 12 se divise par plus de chiffres que 10 (1,2,3,4,6)
@@ssebasgoo Ne vous inquiétez pas. Les français n'ont aucun problème avec ce système. Les systèmes français, belges et suisses ont, chacun, leurs avantages. C'est seulement pour les étrangers, qui apprennent la langue, une difficulté supplémentaire. Et je n'irai jamais critiquer les belges parce qu'ils disent : nonante. Ou parce qu'ils ont été plus assimilés par la culture romaine au point d'en oublier leurs origines.
@@pascalefayet7055 Justement, je suis français et je trouve ça plus logique de dire nonante (c'est la suite logique).
un grand bravo de Belgique ! nous sommes bien content avec notre septante = 70 et nonante = 90 🤗
Just forgot to also take the huitante / octante. 🤭
@@v.d.2090 lol 🤗
Swiss (French part) uses that 😂
it's even different between different french speaking swiss regions
it's a bit like "la bise", 2 or 4 times depending on the french region and 3 times in switzerland, not at all in non french speaking switzerland
This guy is amazing, he's doing stand up in he's car 😂
Don't hesitate to post things that make fun of the French language, we also laugh in France at our crazy language 🤪
Im french and the first time that i saw this video, it was showed by my wife who started to learn french... and i laughed so much
Its crazy because i have never thought about it when i learned this... i have "stupidly" learned these numbers but i have never focused about the dificulty and crazyness of french numbers
In practice it's simpler, when in French we hear "four twentys" we only think about 80 :)
Oui, c'est cela. On n'analyse pas le nombre, on entend son nom.
For dates, we never use 20 24, but 2024. You have to say "mille" (thousand) if you don't want people to think of a phone number instead. So when a French person hears 4, 20, they never think of anything other than 80 because 420 is not said in the same way at all. It's a question of habit, every language has its oddities. Actually, it's rather you who say 2024 or 20 24 sometimes for no reason. Laziness... maybe. This create confusion when you start to learn about french counting.
ou parfois quatre vins
In old French we used septent for 70
Octent for 80
Nonent for 90
It's still the way they say in Belgium and Switzerland
In France we decided to do maths instead 😂
For your information ^^
In french there's some variations :
70 can be read "soixante-dix" 60-10, but it can also be read "septante" who just mean 70. It's used in Belgium and Switzerland, and I don't realy now why or when we stop to use it in France.
80 variants are "huitante" or "octante"
90 variation is "nonante"
For the record, these numbers come from the Celtic way of counting, which used base 20.
i'm french girl. And i was die of laugh with this vidéo!! i ask me often who do nomber like that in french !! sorry for my bad english
I'm laughing so much ! Because he is right ! It's very funny ! Quatre-Vingt-Dix-Sept ! Imagine Four-Twenty-Ten-Seven ! 🤣🤣🤣
C’était bon ! Sa façon de raconter ! 🤣🤣🤣 Merci !
There's an explanation : Celtic people used a 20 base to count ; that explains this strange way to count ; most of it in 10 base ; but sometimes, in 20 base.
He is right. The more right way to count is French Swiss, which counts septante for 70, octante for 80 and nonante for 90.
il me semble que octante se dit en Belgique tandis qu'en Suisse Romande on dit huitante sauf à Genève il me semble mais bon, Genève ce n'est pas la Suisse
@@marinellaravasio1456Et les Vaudois, les pires des Suisses-alémaniques
@@marinellaravasio1456 Non, en Belgique, on dit comme les Français : quatre-vingt pour 80. Mais septante et nonante pour 70 et 90.
@@pinkandrew j'avais un doute, merci de me l'enlever, n'empêche que quatre-vingt n'est pas logique
Huitante not octante 😊
j'ai pleuré de rire. Merci !
It’s true. And I loved how he made it funny.
I already commented to you on an other video. When I was asking why you know French this much.
But love your videos
My mother is french lol
😂😂😂😂😂 As a french guy, i totally ignored that part of my own language.
This man's good.
Sorry bro for that part of our so nice and (maybe to much) rich language
I'm from France.
In Belgium and Switzerland they say
Septante for soixante dix (70)
Nonante for quatre vingt dix (90)
You forgot Octante for quatre-vingt (80) ^^
C’est à mourir de rire! Excellent 😂
I'm french and laughing out loud. The fact is for 70 we had "septante" (seventy), "octante" (heighty) for 80 et "nonante" (ninety) for 90 which were logical, but in the recent course of history, some people decide that to help children to remember that 80 is 4 times 20, "octante" ("eighty") would become quatre-vingt (four-twenty, short for "four times twenty").
Similar twisted mind thought goes for 70 who is 60-10 and 90 which became 80-10.
And he is right 97 instead of being the older "nonante-sept" is "quatre-vingt-dix-sept" (4-20-10-7).
FYI: in some region liek the Savoy region people still use Septante and Nonante.
So good to see someone make fun of the quirks of my language in such a good way. The end top it all ^^ Go New York guy :)
Il a raison 😂
I'm on the floor laughing ! ☺
The truth behind the strange structure of 70, 80 and 90 is that the celts counted in base 20 instead of base 10. With roman colonisation, the elite adopted the Latin and as such our numbering system is amix between both
French comes in various flavours (flavors ? never mind); as a french-speaking belgian, I count "septante" and "nonante" for seventy and ninety. We kept "quatre-vingt", which the Swiss got rid of in favour (favor ? never mind) of "huitante".
Huitante ou octante.
He's right, we do math in the middle of counting in France. 😆 Years ago, I lived in New York, and I love New Yorkers.
Oh God !!! Being French I never had really noticed how funny the numbers can be. That makes my day !!!
lol, i'm french but I totally feel this guy, there are some weird stuff in our language... he's funny and quite right
:)
With its complex metric system, France wins the ‘Medaille Fields’, an international mathematics competition.
No Belgians won this competition, despite their counting system being considered more logical.
Counting differently doesn't mean you're doing it wrong, it just means you're counting differently, that's all.
When i first look at the video my first tought was, wtf what problem is our counting system, but now i 100% agree with him !!! XD
This is hilarious! He's right by the way. 🤣
Btw, the French speaking Belgians and Swiss don't do the math thing after 69 : they say seventy, heighty, Ninety (spetante, octante, nonante) and they laugh at us French too !
Thanks from France It was so funny.
So embarrassing laughing alone in the train...
I live in France and his explanation of numbers was so funny.
If the french number system is her major problem in life; she's got no problem at all.
I'm french and i agree with all comments. This guy is very funny ! And he is completely right ! And now, you know why french are so good at maths !!! 😉
He is right. Other people speaking French in Belgium or Switzerland say : septante, octante, Nonante. I’d like that.
This was comedian level! l'm French BTW and just draw out numbers as they come without paying attention, but now it hits me how fucked up the system is built once you get passed the 16 mark.
Few years ago, I made a music. This was a kind of 80s synth music, with 4 verses of 20 bars. This music was 4 minutes and 20 seconds long. Get all of it ? 😁
Yes, we do it on purpose to confuse Americans. When nobody's watching, we say "septante", "octante", "nonante", etc. 🤣
Huitante
En Suisse, ils disent huitante aussi.
I am french this guy is funny and he is right to complain😂
This is so funny. As a French woman I lived in Switzerland where the system is more logical. But in Geneva 80 is quatre vingt but in Vaud it is huitante. 😅
I’m learning French now (it all started with listening to Lara Fabian) and I immediately thought of the math thing. 😂
In Belgium they said Septante for seventy, octante for eigthty and nonante for ninety and in french they looks like aliens 😂
if 70, 80 and 90 are spelled like that it's because of the language history
before the current french counting system everything was based of 10 and 20 (for exemple 50 was spelled "2-20-10") but eventually they wanted to change it and give an unique name to every one of these numbers, so that means 70 (soixante-dix), 80 (quatre-vingts) and 90 (quatre-vingt-dix) were supposed to be named septante (70), octante (80) and nonante (90) but the population never did the change completely so the names were spelled the same as before except 70 which became a mix between his old name and his newer one : 3-20 got changed to 60 so 3-20-10 became 60-10.
however, in certains regions like Belgium and Switzerland they did some of the changes, in belgium 70 and 90 got their logical name (septante and nonante) but 80 is still the same as before. And in Switzerland it's the same except for 80 where instead of saying 4-20-10 or even "octante" like it was supposed to be, they decided to use a mix between 8 (huit) and "octante" so they say "huitante"
I am from France and when I hear "septante "huitante" or "nonante" I always convert to my head to the name I'm used to, when you're a native you don't question those names
I love USA... I married there, and have lovely friends, are like family... I Hope I can come back to see them in 2025...(with my 2 daughters. for the 1st time 🎉) my husband made discover this great culture, we are both French lovers of the USA ❤
I’m French and I love this comic video. And this young man is not only hilarious but is so right. 🤣 French language was meant to segregate by design (in its origins between the nobles and church people who had the privilege of education and the rest of population). No wonder it is so ridiculously complicated. We almost never pronounce the last letter of any word. So hard to write then… A note is actually printed indicating this on the last page of the first official dictionary printed. In France such project was ordered by the state. And the note says something like the French language will distinguish those who have knowledge from those who don’t. So yeah totally accurate. He’s very right! And BTW I love Americans as much as I love my European counterparts and many other cultures. There are twats and cool kids in every location. 😊
French language was meant to segregate by design? What utter nonsense. French language was not "designed", it evolved from latin mainly and a mixture of other languages. And to top it all, English counting is practically the same as in French. Nonsense all around!
the belgians and other french speaking neighbors makes more sense with the delicious "septante" and "nonante" for 70 and 90 and I even heard that some french speaking swiss people said "octante" for 80.
Cinq vingt = deux cinquante = hundred et alors ! C’était vraiment drôle 😂
This driver has the best explanation of how crazy the french numbers are made, however in my language these conbinations are very fluent and we don't actually do the math. I understand this can be very confusing, but if you go to Switzerland or Belgium they have the proper words for 70 80 and 90, which sounds weird to us French People.
Thanks for all you do, great mister D 😉
This way of counting keeps our brains functionning. Well, until we have to translate miles into kilometers and farenheit into celsius ! 😅
Many nations speak French (Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Canada & a plethora of former French colonies) and understand the humor in this portrayal of the way the French numeric system is said.
However, the Belge (the folks North East of France who are often the butt of French ethnic jokes) have also recognized this numeric quirk.
So what some of them do (not all mind you) is fall back to the Latin logic of saying numbers like 70, 80 or 90. .. 70 Being Septante, 80 being Octante and 90 being Nonante. Perhaps this word rebellion is their way of "sticking it to the Man" (or homme).
So instead of saying Quatre-vingt douze (four times twenty [plus] twelve for 92) they say Nonante deux (ninety two). It's clean, quick, logical and understandable even by properly speaking Francophones.
101 in english is "one hundred and one" !!! Why ??? in french we just say "cent un" (100 - 1) 🙂
hmmm good point
Hilarious! 🤣 (French here)
Too difficult for americans ! I like this guy !
Hello, you like our way to count, just try our grammar 😂🤣
Je n'avais jamais songé à cela avant ..... 🤣
Critics accepted, that’s totally crazy (french means)!
Hello D. Merci pour ta vidéo, j'ai bien rigolé 🙂😂😂🤣🤣
This guy is sooooo right ! Everything is complicated with our language. I work for an English company and I help sometimes with translation on our webpages and you can’t imagine how hard it was to make French fit the pages. It takes us twice more words to express one sentence 😂
I'm french but the belgians got it right, they use septante and nonante for 70 and 90 not some weird shit like we do
And this skit is funny as hell
But why they don't use octante for 80 ?
@@jonathankhan6001Yep that's the real question only people from Swizerland using it.
@@jonathankhan6001 officially Belgians are still allowed to use octante but it has largely been replaced by quatre vingt…
Right? Both are right. Just different
Il faut qu'il vienne faire un spectacle à l'Olympia ❤
To prove my point: learners try to say 999999: Neuf-cent-quatre-vingt-dix-neuf-mille neuf-cent-quatre-vingt-dix-neuf. The next number is simpler though: "Un million" 😅
He’s so right! I’m French and I didn’t even notice it!
He’s a comedic genius! 😂
Eleven,
Twelve,
Third ten... wait a minute !
Au fait, pour tout les francais qui prennent ca au premier degré (heureusement c’est un faible pourcentage), le mec c’est MattColbo, un youtubeur qui fait des sketchs
20 and 1 is because one starts with a vowel ( contrary to 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 which start with consonant ) so, yeh there's a rule here, just for pronunciation.
Well that was funny, AND true.
By the way, if anyone wonders WHY we count funny like that, it's because of our Gaul ancestors who didn't count in base 10 like most civilisations derived from the Roman Empire, but in base 20.
A lot of their language is lost in modern French, but Quatre-vingt made its way through time somehow.
even in french we sometime joke about it more or less that way... a classical one is a man that have some issue to speak fast that try to give a number to an other one that try to write it down on the go : "1000... 5... 100... 4... 20... 10... 8" so the guy write 1000 then correct it as 1005 then 1500, 1504, 1580, 1590 and finally 1598!