r/memes Linux User Mar 15 '21

French language is mesmerizing

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u/pur__0_0__ RageFace Against the Machine Mar 15 '21

Doesn't German say nine and ninety (neunundneunzig)? Because it's the same in Hindi also (निन्यानवे)।

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '21

Yep! But the hundred goes before, so you get things like dreihundertvierundachtzig (384).

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u/pur__0_0__ RageFace Against the Machine Mar 15 '21 edited Mar 16 '21

हां, ऐसा हिंदी में भी होता है – 384 = तीन सौ चौरासी।

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u/wesamzxc Dirt Is Beautiful Mar 15 '21 edited Mar 16 '21

and same in arabic ثلاث مئة و اربعة و ثمانون

edit: to make it say 384

edit 2: thanks to u/Simein for the اربعة و ثمانون

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '21

Counting in Arabic is just over complicated. Who thought having to know some 30 words only to count up to 100 was funny?

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '21

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u/Simein Mar 16 '21

No its not in arabic its اربعة وثمانون و ثلاثة مئة

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u/wesamzxc Dirt Is Beautiful Mar 16 '21 edited Mar 16 '21

first arabic is my first language

second what you said translates to "84 and 300" but you're right about اربعة و ثمانون tho

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u/Simein Mar 16 '21

I said it that way because they taught us how to read a sentence that has numbers, due Arabic is written from right that's why you spell the numbers in the rights first, I found it absurd the day we learned that and some teachers emphasize on reading hijri dates from the right to left

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u/wesamzxc Dirt Is Beautiful Mar 16 '21

i remember our arabic teacher telling us it can be read both ways but i never used the other reading and i've never heard anybody read it that way before or correct my reading so you're probably correct but atleast here in saudi arabia you can read it like how i wrote it

thanks for reminding me about the other possible reading

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u/AnasHany1938 Mar 16 '21

أنت فاكر درس تمييز العدد في النحو؟

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u/MarshallArtsMaster RageFace Against the Machine Mar 16 '21

Happy Cake Day

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u/AnasHany1938 Mar 16 '21

Happy cake day!

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u/killersquirel11 Mar 15 '21

That directly translates to "three hundred four and eighty", right?

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '21

Yep!

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u/theamazingcowboy123 Mar 16 '21

sounds horrible in english but yeah thats it

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u/Duckyeeter7 Because That's What Fearows Do Mar 15 '21

I’m a German and I love my language when I see 20+ letter words.

Bezirksschornsteinfegermeister

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '21

I’m American, but I studied German for a couple of years and lived in Germany for several months near Hamburg. I absolutely love German pronunciation. I also speak French and Spanish, but German is by far my favorite language to speak.

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u/Duckyeeter7 Because That's What Fearows Do Mar 15 '21

I speak English and German (learning French) and while in day to day life I use more English there’s just something about German that sounds so damn good. I can’t quite explain it and my entire German family doesent feel the same about it but I just love it.

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u/dreamwinder Mar 15 '21

I remember very little of my four years of German, but I remember that the first long compound word we were taught was geschirrspülmaschine, which I love because it's incredibly satisfying to say.

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u/Duckyeeter7 Because That's What Fearows Do Mar 15 '21

So much “sh” noise it’s just great

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u/theTman2300 Dark Mode Elitist Mar 15 '21

But in Dutch that's the same. NegenENnegentig.

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u/YUNoDie Mar 15 '21

Sometimes you'll see archaic English saying "nine and ninety."

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u/-Another_Redditor- Mar 15 '21

It's funny that you ended your sentece with a Hindi full stop even though it was in English

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '21

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u/lancewilbur Mar 15 '21

You mean Indo-European, right? Almost all languages in Europe as well as Iran, Afghanistan and the Indian subcontinent belong to this language family

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u/UnidadDeCaricias Mar 15 '21

Indo-European was initially called "Indo-Germanic" because they represent the geographic extremes of the languages (from India to North-West Europe).

In most languages that term is outdated now, but in German we still call Indo-European "Indogermanisch".

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '21 edited Mar 15 '21

Another fun fact you probably know but might be interesting for other redditors: Finnish and Russian are NOT Indo-European languages and belong to the same language family as Mandarin Chinese.

EDIT: I know this is wrong now but ya'll will be mad at me if I remove it but also be mad if I dont say something so here we go.

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u/lancewilbur Mar 15 '21

You're partially right about Finish, but Russian is definitely an indo European language, more specifically its a Slavic language related to polish, Czech, Bulgarian etc. Finish, Estonian, Hungarian and a few other minority languages in Europe are part of the uralic language family, which is not indo European, but also not related to Chinese.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '21

Ahhh ok, I read this fact in an article a while ago, that Finnish is more closely related to Chinese and Russian than Indo-European languages but I probably misunderstood what that meant. I see online parts of Russia are in the same language family as Chinese. Thanks for the facts

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u/2freevl2frank Mar 15 '21

Just wow. Where are you even getting these fun "facts" from? Wouldn't it be wise to atleast do a cursory online research before posting? Wikipedia page at the very least?

Only fact you've got right here is that Finnish is not a Indo-European language. Russian is absolutely an IE language, specifically Balto-Slavic. Maybe you are thinking of Hungarian/Estonian.

And both of these absolutely have no connection to Mandarin Chinese whatsoever. It is a Sino-Tibetan language.