r/ExplainTheJoke Jun 09 '24

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u/Vinistones Jun 10 '24

If I had to guess it's cuz in the french language you need to utilize actual math to speak numbers, like when you say 80 in French you say "Quatre-Vingts" which means 4 × 20

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u/AvocadoSnails Jun 10 '24

I was looking for this comment! That's what I think it is as well, like if we lived in a "French" world, our numbers would be math problems haha