how to pronounce numbers

[Thomas Okken]

(06-25-2018 10:34 AM)grsbanks Wrote:  

(06-25-2018 05:20 AM)cyrille de brébisson Wrote:  126.544
Cent vintgt-quatre virgule cinq cent quarante-quatre

Plus deux

(06-25-2018 05:20 AM)cyrille de brébisson Wrote:  And I leave you with one of the most wonderfull numbers of the French language:
98 = Quatre-vingt-dix-huit or: For Twenty and ten eight! How wonderful!

Only in French French. The French-speaking Swiss or Belgians would say nonante-huit

Long ago, I was waiting in line at the ticket counter at the central train station in Lausanne, Switzerland, which is in the French-speaking part of the country. The gentleman ahead of me had a complicated problem; I think he may not have had enough money for his ticket home, or some such issue. My French was very limited at the time (still is, sad to say), but two things stood out in what I overheard: he used the word "octante," and a few moments later he said "je suis belge." I found out later that in French-speaking Switzerland, eighty is "huitante." I wonder if the ticket agent had been criticizing his French.