French took it's number system from Basque, which is at least more consistent since iirc in French 70 is 60+10 while the consistent logic should be 3*20+10.

Anyway, you say that twenty is far from twenty ->twen ten->second ten. 70 in Basque is hirurogeitahamar->hirur hogei ta hamar->hirugarren (third) hogei(twenty) eta(and) hamar(ten). It's the same logic.

The only reason you say it's bonkers is because you don't understand. Different = wrong. Lmao.

Also, don't fucking say that french is my language, I'm Basque Spaniard.

Also, as the other commenter said, we are speaking English, do you understand how insane of a language it is? It's a Frankenstein of several languages where words were imported while keeping the pronunciation, so there's no fucking logic as to how you are to say things.

How do you said "read"? No that's wrong, I meant the past tense. Oh, it needs context?

How do you say entrepreneur? Why are you saying it in French? Fuck logic.

In Spanish you are able to pronounce correctly any word you read for the first time because the rules it has define strict pronunciation. Same for Basque, the only thing you might do wrong is intonation but most of the time it's the second syllable. It's fucking crazy that you both need to learn a word and how it's pronounced in english, for every word.

Oh, extra edit. If the Basque/French counting system makes the language too hard don't touch spoken Chinese lmao, intonation changes completely words way more frequently than Papa/papá.