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[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 51 points 9 months ago (13 children)

Context:

German:

  • "siebenundneunzig"
  • = "sevenandninety"

English:

  • = "ninety-seven"

French:

  • "quatre-vingt-dix-sept"
  • = "four-twenty-ten-seven"
[–] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago (12 children)

It's shit like that why I wonder people just don't update their languages, remove useless letters, nonsensical loan words exonyms, etc.

[–] Taigagaai@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Like many things in life, languages aren't necessary logical but I'm looking forward to your efforts to finally get everyone into Esperanto!

[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Or Lojban.

Edit:

Lojban (pronounced [ˈloʒban]) is a logical, constructed, human language created by the Logical Language Group which aims to be syntactically unambiguous.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Or quantum grammar, which would solve the problems of normal languages where people have misunderstandings by making it so that nobody can communicate anything enough to have a misunderstanding again because it's all gibberish.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wynn_Miller

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