Pronunciation of words like fauteuil. French saw -euil and apparently decided to play a sick joke on the rest of the world.
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Tough, though, throw, trough, thorough, through, thought.
So do French stoners just tell each other "80 dude" or "90 everybody" if its a big party?
Boards of Canada
What do you think "seven -ty" is. Seven ten
Yes, seven, ten times not sixty plus ten more
Brother, thats nothing, have you seen their vowels? Vowel chart is insane:
And also they distinguish diphtongs(like ai in pain), hiatus (like saying pain but saying it like "pa" from "papa" and then "in") and even fucking glides so "ai" and "aj" are not the same 💀
have you seen their vowels?
Just barely.
Oh lol sorry, its an svg and i cant convert it, im on phone rn.
No worries, i got you.
Nah bro came through 🙏
I take no complaints on that subject from people who measure in inches, feet and ounces.
Attacking the person and not the argument is an ad hominem fallacy.
We adopted the standard. The boat with the official measurements sank on the way over, you unread swine.
Fun fact: the moon landing was programmed and calculated in metric.
So, laughs in moon landing units.
US units have all been redefined in relation to metric, so technically they use metric just with wierd factors
You (meaning the US) had 200 years to undo one mistake and you failed.
happy anni-fedi-versary!
And yards...and Fahrenheits!
That F is zeroed out on fucking Brine makes it the most absurd thing.
Like OK there may be an argument for base 12 or base 16 (but not both)... But a mixture of water, ice, and sodium chloride?
Like OK blame a German I guess , but at least they were smart enough to decide, "Das ist stupid"
C is pretty made up too. Why water, and why sea level? Don't complain about F if you aren't using K, where zero actually means zero. Anything else is just picking arbitrary points that you like for one reason or another.
Why water
Because it’s one of the most abundant resources available on earth that is imperative to our understanding of the existence of life and is the commonest solution regularly used by humans in scenarios where temperature is a relevant factor.
why sea level?
Because vast swathes of humanity live at or near sea level, where we already arbitrarily nominate the level of atmospheric pressure to be 1 ATM.
While K has a natural zero-point, the gradation (by your logic) is entirely arbitrary as well because it’s based on C and not some other cosmological constant.
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That is a proper base-20 heritage. May you live to six-twenties.
Captain Picard is French so he ought to be in a better position to answer the question than most of us.
Captain Picard and his brother were sent off to an old fashioned English boarding school by their luddite father that didn't allow them to transport home in the evening or weekends, thus their English accents (my head canon).
Picard's brother became indoctrinated into the same fucked up luddite philosophy and didn't even allow 24th century fire safety technology in his home, leading to the death of him, his wife and his son due to a fire (actual canon).
I liked when they got drunk together though
🤓 Technically there are septante, octante, nonante, but it's either considered local to some region (belgium, switzerland, etc) or old-school
or old-school
That's the crazy part.
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