To be fair, it is kinda dumb that four has a U, but forty doesn't.
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Yeah, but then we'd have to say onety, twoty, threety and fivety as well. Just take it as its own word rather than four+ty and it'll make more sense, I think.
Okay but forty and fourty are pronunced the same way. And I'm sure fivety wouldn't sound funny if thats how we started off.
Edit: and seventy, eighty, ninety all use their original number spelling.
I've always been a proponent of onety-two.
Spelling is bullshit and we should never give someone shit for intelligible spelling. Fourty makes perfect sense, fuck off with that bullshit.
I can do without having to decipher everything I read like it's some sort of Middle English manuscript.
honestly we should all just switch to chinese writing, it makes so much more sense to simply have characters for concepts than to have symbols that don't even properly correspond to sounds..
Logo-phonetic script (Chinese) is a bitch to learn and impossible to type. There were efforts to come up with a native Chinese keyboard and they all failed. The just use an English keyboard and spell phonetically through a conversion layer. Plus, alphabets, abjads, and syllabaries make it possible to recognize a word you've never seen before. I'm not an expert in this area though, I just know some words most people don't.
Is part of the joke that their math was also wrong?
Assuming this is from this year, 2024 - 2018 = 6
You’re right. I was looking at the 22 like it was a year. My b
Did I land on 4chan with that edgy suicide joke?
4chan would have thrown in some slurs too