Swiss cheese memory
I brought back two types of cheeses from Switzerland (or Schweiz as the Danes call it). One was Raccard, the other Bruyeres. Kendrick gobbled up a few slices as soon as we got home on Sunday.
There were a bunch of things I wanted to write about the trip but now I've forgotten, due to the lack of diligence in blogging after NaBloPoMo.
One thing I do remember is the Swiss making fun of the way the French count. Specifically the way they say the 70s, 80s, and 90s. The French (and the Danes for that matter) use a counting system based on multiples of 20. So 70 is spoken as 60 + 10, 80 is spoken as four 20s, and 90 is spoken as four 20s + 10. It seems to offend the orderly sensibilities of the Swiss, who have switched to saying six 10s, seven 10s, and eight 10s.
I'm working a lot of overtime this week and the next in order to meet a deadline on Dec 15, right before we come home.
There were a bunch of things I wanted to write about the trip but now I've forgotten, due to the lack of diligence in blogging after NaBloPoMo.
One thing I do remember is the Swiss making fun of the way the French count. Specifically the way they say the 70s, 80s, and 90s. The French (and the Danes for that matter) use a counting system based on multiples of 20. So 70 is spoken as 60 + 10, 80 is spoken as four 20s, and 90 is spoken as four 20s + 10. It seems to offend the orderly sensibilities of the Swiss, who have switched to saying six 10s, seven 10s, and eight 10s.
I'm working a lot of overtime this week and the next in order to meet a deadline on Dec 15, right before we come home.
posted by Gina at 7:23 PM
1 Comments:
Reminds me of how Shintaro, the famously foreigner-hating Governor of Tokyo commented a year or so ago that French could never be an International language the way English is because you can't even COUNT properly with it.
Clearly Mr. Shintaro is simply unaware of all of the brilliant mathematicians who came out of France, despite the numerical inadequacies of their mother tongue. :)
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