The celtic number system before Roman invasion was based on 20 rather than 10. So peoples started to transpose this way of numbering with the latin names. And many different ways to describe the same number cohabited. And generally, it didn't really matter as before Arabic digits, the way of writing numbers was also all over the place. With the arrival of Arabic digits, especially the zero, most cultures progressively regularised their number system around the number 10 in order to match the new digit-based notation. In France, this change was successful for low numbers that are commonly used, but failed to change the tradition on higher numbers. And this resistance was made worse by the very conservative approach to language of the third republic (end of the 19th century), who wanted "one nation, one language" and would not tolerate any variation from the established norm. A lot of French-speaking peoples that aren't French (Belgium, Quebec EDIT: it seems not Quebec, Switzerland, etc) frequently use "nonante deux" instead of "quatre-vingt douze", in part because the language had more time to continue its natural evolution without being set in stone. More on reddit.com

I'm french speaking and this is fuckin hilarious More on reddit.com

I don't know if that's what's bothering you, but for quatre-vingts, forget what the name means. Don't make 4 x 20 in your head, you'll mix everything up. Quatre-vingts is 80, that's all. Same for 70 and 90. For the rest... it just takes practice. Everybody struggles with numbers in foreign languages (I'm having a stroke each time I see something like neunhundertneunundneunzig) Edit : thank you for my first reddit award ! More on reddit.com

Merci! C'est super. Je voulais télécharger Anki depuis quelque temps. Où peut-on le télécharger? 🔗, svp More on reddit.com