461
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] jaaake@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The last. Much like Americans with their dates, English would occasionally jumble up the unit order.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

German still does this. The French are even worse.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Pray tell what is wrong with quatre vignt y douze?

Other than the fact that it has been decades since I took French and probably misspelled every single word there.

Their way of counting just makes it more frequent to encounter 420

this post was submitted on 23 Apr 2026
461 points (99.1% liked)

History Memes

3016 readers
147 users here now

A place to share history memes!

Rules:

  1. No sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, assorted bigotry, etc.

  2. No fascism (including tankies/red fash), atrocity denial or apologia, etc.

  3. Tag NSFW pics as NSFW.

  4. Follow all Piefed.social rules.

  5. History referenced must be 20+ years old.

  6. Avoid posting AI-generated content whenever possible.

Banner courtesy of @setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world

OTHER COMMS IN THE HISTORYVERSE:

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS