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I almost missed the Spanish upsidedown semicolon

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¿Wait what?

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In Spanish we open and close all quotations. Like:

  • ¿Tienes cambio? (do you have change?)
  • ¡Me encanta! (I love it!)
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I don’t speak Spanish at all, but I really wish more languages would adapt it. It’s so much easier to interpret a sentence knowing it’s meant to be a question or exclamation right from the start.

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Just started learning French only to find out you need a Bachelor’s in math just to count past 70.

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In Swiss French we say « septante » (70) « huitante » (80) and « nonante » (90) which is better than counting by 20

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Swiss French doesn’t count as French (like Schwiizerdütsch isch nöd Dütsch)

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3 points

programming x linguistics humor

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As a programmer and a linguist, this is the kind of content that really gets the happy chemicals flowing through my monkey brain

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As a French, I understand this post and it hurts because it’s true.

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I don’t how you teach basic counting at a young age in French without learning higher grade level math.

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Joke aside, it’s not taught as 4 × 20 +10 but simply “90 is pronounced quatre-vingt-dix” — which kinda is a mouthful, but you rarely count to 90 as a kid anyway.

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Sounds like you were just a quitter. I counted to 100 all the time to show off.

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I’m counting to 100 right now, fight me!

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