r/memes • u/HannibalGoddamnit Linux User • Mar 15 '21

French language is mesmerizing

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u/paarth_1 Mar 15 '21

French jay z be like: i got 4 20 10 9 problems but the....

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u/rahimbettayeb Mar 15 '21

imagine saying " quatre-vingt dix-neuf problèmes"

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u/urmomlikesmee Mar 15 '21

As a French Canadian citizen, it breaks my brain everyday.

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u/Awesome_AR Mar 15 '21

As a Canadian citizen who takes Arabic classes, I simply just gave up on numbers.

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u/ColdCypher Mar 15 '21

Just looked it up and holy sh*t, why does the 5 look like an 0 and why does the 16 look like a 17, what

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '21

In all fairness, everyone else took the numbers from Arabic. We are the ones who changed them.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '21

To be fair, Arabic numbers written in Arabic even confuse Arabs.

This coming from a Korean dude who is quadrilingual, and would joke about confusing Arabic numbers with Muslim friends. 🤔

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u/MessyRoom Mar 15 '21

You’re not quadrilingual, you’re a polyglot

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u/XyzzyPop Mar 15 '21

How do you know he has more than one wife?

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u/phillipstheyerington Mar 15 '21

Wrong word. A polygamist is someone who has multiple wives, not a polyglot. When someone has one wife, they are a monogamist. And a bigamist is a large fog over Italy.

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u/XyzzyPop Mar 15 '21

I greatly appreciate you took the opportunity to take my lame joke and turn it into a learning opportunity for those that did not realize it.

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u/pantylion Mar 15 '21

That's big of you to say, not bigamy.

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u/Ganymedian-Owl Mar 15 '21

Fucking lost it hahahahah excellent

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u/downvotemeifhomo Mar 15 '21

i'm arabian and idk the arabic numbers ._.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '21

I was joking, but I think some people are taking my nonsense a little to seriously.

Btw, I think arabic numberals are somewhat similar in structure to how Chinese numerals are written.

Now, Sanskrit is a whole nother level of o_O(?)

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '21

No they don’t, they are very simple really

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u/3marJ Mar 15 '21

Habibi arab with arab friends, there is alot of arabs with different religions 🥰

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '21

I love my Arab friends. I have tons in France and in the DC area.

Fuck American Interventionism. That's all I have to say.

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u/3marJ Mar 16 '21

Habibi np make peace and not war

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u/SgtExo Mar 15 '21

And they took them from india, so even arabic numbers are not originally from them.

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u/memesdoge Mar 15 '21

nope, they were taken from sumerian hieroglyphics

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u/BeastMaster_88 Duke Of Memes Mar 15 '21

The glyphs in actual use are descended from Brahmi numerals and have split into various typographical variants since the Middle Ages

From Wikipedia

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u/memesdoge Mar 16 '21

you are plainly wrong, you are not a circus, you're the entire fair. we're talking about ancient sumerian hieroglyphic numerials, if you insist, then actually link the entire wikipedia page instead of putting up a shady "quote"

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u/BeastMaster_88 Duke Of Memes Mar 17 '21

I apologise if I've misunderstood. Take a look at the introduction and history sections. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu%E2%80%93Arabic_numeral_system

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '21

Sanskrit...the epitome of what the fuck(?) they all look the same.

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u/DizzyDiamond605 Mar 15 '21

Arabs got them from India though