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Re:Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines by rzwitserloot on Monday June 20, 2022 @05:52PM (#31816555)
Germanic (Dutch, German, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian) languages just say "10 october", they'd never say "October 10th". Before we get our 'english is so stupid!!!' hat on, in many of these (e.g. Dutch and German), the number '87' is pronounced 'seven-and-eighty' ('zevenentachtig' - 'zeven en tachtig' - seven and eighty), which is stupid. Languages are weird).

Same for the romance ones: It's just "Quatorze juillet" - 14th of July (Bastille day).

English is the weird one, but not that weird, "7th of october" is not much more complicated to say than "October 7th".

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Re:Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines by Terretta on Monday June 20, 2022 @07:55PM (#31817870)
About that romance 87 …

French in France: four twenties seven

French in Switzerland: eighty seven (octante sept)

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Re:Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines by bewuethr on Monday June 27, 2022 @12:32AM (#31890612)
Swiss French is rather "huitante", and also that not in all regions ("quatre-vingt" in the rest), see https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ais_de_Suisse#Nombre...
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Re:Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines by pronik on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @01:57AM (#31820404)
French is actually not so weird if you think about what a "score" is in English. Gettysburg address literally begins with "four score and seven years ago", which equals to 87.
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