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Why are the Japanese poor at English?
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guty



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PostPosted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 7:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Gajinalways wrote:
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The numbering in English is not as easy as in French for example.


Can you, or anyone else, explain this please?
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Stephen Jones



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PostPosted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 11:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
The kid phrased the question wrong. It should have been "Why do I have to waste time copying out 50 past participles?"
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GambateBingBangBOOM



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PostPosted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
guty wrote:
Gajinalways wrote:
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The numbering in English is not as easy as in French for example.


Can you, or anyone else, explain this please?


I think it's a reference to this type of thing:

1999 (nineteen ninety nine)
1999 (mille neuf cent, quatre vingt dix-neuf) (thousand, nine hundred, four twenty nineteen)

So saying 90 in French is saying Four-Twenty-Ten. But the thing is that nobody actually thinks of it that way any more than anybody in English thinks of 21 as Twenty plus 1 or 19 as "nine + ten", so I don't really think the French counting system is actually any harder than the English one.

Bu maybe that's not what the poster meant.
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guty



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 6:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Except the poster said French numbers were easier than english, your description is saying the oposite
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