Something I've been meaning to rant about for a while

[jedusor]

French numbers make no sense. Everything's fine and dandy and translatable until sixty-nine, then seventy is "soixante-dix" (sixty-ten), and it continues up until "soixante-dix-neuf" (sixty-ten-nine, or sixty-nineteen), then eighty is "quatre-vingts" (four-twenties). To make a long story short, "ninety-nine" is "quatre-vingts-dix-neuf" (four-twenties-ten-nine). So, uh, multiply the first two numbers, then add the second two, and you get the number you're looking for, I guess. But I'm supposed to be able to hear this and write it down as numerical figures. Also, the whole everything being masculine and feminine thing was confusing enough before we learned the feminine form of the word "masculine" and the masculine form of the word "feminine."

Regardless of this, I'm enjoying French immensely, and actually had a sorta-kinda-conversation in it with lizzip. Granted, it started off with me accidentally using the male article to refer to her, but I'm still happy about the able-to-communicate thing.