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Colors, localized. (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 year ago by rclkrtrzckr@discuss.tchncs.de to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 year ago

French is the only Romance language that does the count-by-twenties thing, as far as I know, but apparently some of the Celtic languages do it too. So French may have picked it up from Breton (or Gaulish or who-knows).