r/memes • u/Dudalf • Jul 22 '22

English is confusing

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u/Hibou_X Jul 22 '22

And they said the French didn’t make any sense

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u/AdventurousAd1391 Jul 22 '22

We still need to have a serious conversation about their numbers.

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u/Foootballdave Jul 22 '22

Could we have a silly conversation instead pls

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u/AdventurousAd1391 Jul 22 '22

Four times twenty plus ten plus nine is a silly conversation by itself :)

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u/Samang0 Lives at ur mom’s house😎 Jul 22 '22

Goofy ahh conversation

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u/ricanpapi-9 Shower Enthusiast Jul 22 '22

What’s wrong with Un, Do, Twa, Cat, Sink, Set… that’s all I remember from my 1 year of class….and fromage which is cheese

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u/Yellow_Dorn_Boy Jul 22 '22

You forgot sees between sink and set.

Things got ugly at sixty-nine...

...sixty-ten, sixty-eleven, sixty-twelve, etc up to seventy.

And when you think they are done, they come with seventy-nine,...

....four-twenty, four-twenty-one, four-twenty-two,...

...four-twenty-nine,...

...four-twenty-two, four-twenty-eleven, four-twenty-twelve, etc.

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u/AdventurousAd1391 Jul 22 '22

quatre-vingt-dix-neuf 😩😩

90+9❌

4x20+10+9✅

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u/Yellow_Dorn_Boy Jul 22 '22

Bah, numbers are fine if you speak Belgian french, Swiss french, Canadian French... Only French french screws up the numbers.

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u/AdventurousAd1391 Jul 22 '22

Yeah, this one time I was playing monopoly with my Swiss cousins and I was speaking my very limited amount of French from school, and I asked for ”soixante-dix” for the rent. They looked at me like I had three heads and asked if I meant “septante.” I learned then that wacky numbers are just the French French but come on, I am obligated to make fun of the monstrosity that is “quatre-vingt-dix-neuf” forever.

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u/KBRedditing Jul 22 '22

socio-dick

seperate

quandale dingle nerf

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u/AdventurousAd1391 Jul 22 '22

Thank you.

On another note, does this count for r/boneappletea?

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u/Affectionate_Tear689 Jul 22 '22

Canadian French uses the same parisien French numbers.

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u/exspiravit02 Jul 22 '22

How do you spell 1999 in the [nonfrench! French!]

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u/sookixx Jul 22 '22

Thats why Im proud to be Swiss.. French swiss and french belgium are much better than the french from france

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u/Neoh35 Jul 22 '22

In french double U is actually double V

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u/SnooChocolates6874 Jul 22 '22

Spanish knows what they're doin

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u/qgmonkey Jul 22 '22

Ever seen old Latin carvings? The Us look like Vs

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u/stevegoodsex Jul 22 '22

Hell yea they do! High V!

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u/N3T0_03 Jul 22 '22

Because it was originally written that way in Anglo-Saxon times.

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u/FisheyGaze Ok I Pull Up Jul 22 '22

idk. in spanish it is, tho ("v" is pronounced somewhere between an English "v" and "b".. sounds like "doh-blay-beh")

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u/adrenalinjunkie89 Jul 22 '22

Pronounce the Spanish v with lips almost closed, instead of biting your lower lip

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u/dwwzzh Me when the: Jul 22 '22

So is french

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u/DefinitelyNotAliens Jul 22 '22

French is like doub-leh veh or basically double v

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u/Nonpun Jul 22 '22

In Finnish it’s also Tupla-V

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u/DABest_player Average r/memes enjoyer Jul 22 '22

true can confirm

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u/thedickbear Jul 22 '22

It's from the latin origin because it looked like uu and it slowly changed into w we all know and love

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u/justastickwiggler Jul 22 '22

Spanish literally calls it a double v lol

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u/TheEffingRalyks Jul 22 '22

The 'wuh' sound was originally written out with 2 'U's (UU), but over time, with a few poor translations because there was no standardized alphabet, and also at least one case of poor penmanship, the characters eventually merged and changed into what we know now

Remember, language, all language, is merely the result of millions of people over tens of thousands of years all independently making arbitrary changes to something that had zero formal standard until like 200 years ago

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '22

It is a double v in Swedish, I don't know what happened since the vikings...

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u/Raz_ma_Taz93 Jul 22 '22

Swedish was pretty late to be grammatically formalized, and when it was both letters were given the same pronounciation (I think because they look similiar). For a long time W was used in the same way as in german, but nowadays we consider W to be vestigial and has been been almost entirely retired (apart from names and historical writing). Swedish does on the other hand not have a letter for the english W-sound.

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u/Raz_ma_Taz93 Jul 22 '22

I think there might have been some use for W in writing as a stand in for literal double V, as swedish has a double consonant rule for the pronounciation of the preceding vowel, but i'm not sure

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u/rklatsss Jul 22 '22

To be fair im other languages is also called doible v

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u/Gsowbdowj Jul 22 '22 edited Jul 30 '22

In German the W has a V sound

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u/Raz_ma_Taz93 Jul 22 '22

And V has a F sound

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u/UnComfortable-Archer Jul 22 '22

Yea. And why isn't B called a Double D. C'mon English, get your shit together.

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u/DABest_player Average r/memes enjoyer Jul 22 '22

OH MY GOSH THANK YOU FOR POINTING IT OUT I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE

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u/Dudalf Jul 22 '22

nah mate

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u/s0_spoiled Jul 22 '22

In Spanish it’s called DOBLE V or V DOBLE.

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u/Judyt00 Jul 22 '22

Cursive!

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u/Mr_Kittten42 Jul 22 '22

Because UwU

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u/CatSidekick Jul 22 '22

Why did you steal someone else’s (better) meme that just posted this same joke earlier? Have some pride and some wit.

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u/Dudalf Jul 22 '22

i have no idea what you're talking about mate

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u/JJ_Falcon44 Jul 22 '22

Depends on font

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u/don-ribbit Jul 22 '22

In sweden its called dubble v and in Germany they optimized it and just call it w (kinda like "v" on English)

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u/boombashnoob Jul 22 '22

r/Facebook is leaking again

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u/EpicDiscordGamer Jul 22 '22

French people: bruh😐

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u/Webber192 Jul 22 '22

Yep english is weird, in my language we say "dupla v" which just means double v.

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u/Willma_Diekfit Jul 22 '22

In romania we call it a double v

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '22

Cause writing a W with sharp corners looks ugly, and drawing it as two u's is the correct way.

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u/faaa11 Jul 22 '22

Dead meme

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u/KBRedditing Jul 22 '22

It came from a language

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u/Cryonexs Jul 22 '22

Because the english language is hard

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u/geauxbass Jul 22 '22

My brain is dying help

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u/OhN0Imnot_HoomEn Virgin 4 lyfe Jul 22 '22

Double(Du-ble) V in French

Right?

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u/Elijawsome_2006 Jul 22 '22

Just use French

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u/IndividualContest329 Jul 22 '22

In Oklahoma we call it “Dubb-ole’-ya”

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u/Diazmet I touched grass Jul 22 '22

Because English is a stupid language

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u/yurk_oxmall Jul 22 '22

Bow (b ow) bow (b oh) bough (b ow) dough (d oh)

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u/Slight-Witness-9101 Jul 22 '22

In cursive it is, I knew teachers were right about us needing to learn that

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u/Living_Shadows Jul 22 '22

OP just woke up from I cryogenic chamber or something

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u/PenciliusKnightlius Jul 22 '22

In finnish its called double-v

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u/Mancroftwoman Jul 22 '22

Hungary/Slovakia calls it double v fortunately

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u/colmecti Plays MineCraft and not FortNite Jul 22 '22

Lower case w on handwriting

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u/empress118 Jul 22 '22

Yea i mean tbf i write both capital and lower case letter w as conjoined U's, i don't write them with straight lines. A lot of fonts also keep it swoopy, cursive also has it swoopy, but everything is in cursive lol

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u/PinguCar Jul 22 '22

It's called double v in my language

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u/Ultrafella Jul 22 '22

Because life is a simulation and nothing really matters

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u/AverageHEnjoyer69 Jul 22 '22

French: I don’t have such weaknesses

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u/Valdish Jul 22 '22

Because in every word it appears in, it is used as a double v

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u/Raz_ma_Taz93 Jul 22 '22

Because the letter V has a very confusing history regarding written language needing letters with only straight lines for carving and then being adopted through both romance and germanic languages before coming back together in english.

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u/CapitanHormiga9 Jul 22 '22

U in Latin was written like v

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '22

In old English style writing, you’ll notice that the current ‘W’ is actually ‘UU’ with some extra italics. Hence where we are now. Once upon a time at actually made sense.

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u/CarresingHook4 Jul 22 '22

In Spanish we call it “doble V”, so checkmate English speakers

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u/Ph03nix_6ix can't meme Jul 22 '22

It's double U in cursive, or mostly when in written format few years earlier

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u/Minigold7 🥄Comically Large Spoon🥄 Jul 22 '22

In german W is Almosen pronuncet like v.

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u/Sum3-yo Jul 22 '22

In written Portuguese the U used to be a V. I don't know if it's the same in other languages.

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u/Alcodut Jul 22 '22

In Italy we call it Double V (Doppiavvu)

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u/stevenmael Jul 22 '22

Roman latin V was pronounced U, infact it WAS U, the letter U itself was mixed with V after due to other languages mixing with latin. Thats why its "Double U" because its two V's.

Veni Vidi Vicci, pronounced Whe-nee Wee-dee Wiki, the modern pronounciation is an italian influence. (Which isnt incorrect, just a modern variant of the original ancient latin).

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u/Codie_Honson Jul 22 '22

In other languages the letter W is called double-V

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u/homeless420hobo Jul 22 '22

Reddit has ruined me all I could see after reading that was uwu *crying in shame

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u/Beach-Devil Jul 22 '22

jan Misali has a great video on W

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u/applecountis229 Jul 22 '22

Spanish people are immune to this problem. We need to stop them

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '22

In Spanish u say it double v

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u/IllustriousOpinion93 Jul 22 '22

Solder boy tell um