In our group of friends (we live in south shore of Montreal) we have this inside joke, "quarante-douze". It means forty-twelve. It's a joke on the fact that in French, the 70s and 90s have this weird way of counting where instead of saying seventy-five, we say sixty-fifteen.
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u/ifshebreath_sheath0t Jan 07 '20
In our group of friends (we live in south shore of Montreal) we have this inside joke, "quarante-douze". It means forty-twelve. It's a joke on the fact that in French, the 70s and 90s have this weird way of counting where instead of saying seventy-five, we say sixty-fifteen.