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French is the language of homos
Italian is the real Romantic language
But the phonology is just...wtf
Well, we haven't declinations like Latin or even Greek.
I used to hate french but decided to like it
I just have a hard time with pronunciation
But the syntax and pronunciation are hard.
French was probably the last western Romance language to drop the case system
Especially the nasalisation of -an/-en
French looked interesting to learn until I discovered the counting system
J'aime le français cadien, de Louisiane
They had nominative and oblique whereas Castilian and the Italian dialects dropped it
Ah cajuns
Coonasses
@ChuuniMage what's the French counting system?
It revolves around twenties or something like that
Yeah French has a weird way of expressing larger numbers
Like instead of saying fourty you'd say two twenties
É and è and -in are hard for me to get right
I think I can do -on, -an, etc
Once you get to double digits and inch closer to 100 it gets weird
80 is four-twenty
No numbers are better than Anglo numbers
So do French stoners so 80 blaze it
Four hundreds twenty
But it's easy
The only simpler system for numbers than English is esperanto tbh
Quatre-cent-vingt
To be fair in archaic English usage you do have the score
Four-hundred-twenty
Strangely enough when I was counting a lot of things I would count in twenties, so it might not be as weird for me as I thought
Abraham Lincoln's famous speech
I like the score
"Four score and seven years ago"
It's just a term like decade
That's probably a vestigial feature from Anglo Norman
As are most of English's advanced vocabulary
I didn't know score meant twenty till I was 15
The English word order is also from Old Norse
In Old English it was SOV not SVO
Old English had declension so order didn't really matter
And could change for emphasis