Lesson - Section 4 - Les nombres français

[garçoncanadien]

ah so I am old fashioned then? Could it have been a dot in the olden days?

[aFrenchie]

Originally Posted by garçoncanadien

ah so I am old fashioned then? Could it have been a dot in the olden days?

You have seen dots already? Well, I wouldn't be surprised if you found some on the internet or anything computer to prevent one of the spaces that might be at the end of a line to split the number on two lines. Those spaces should be "insécable" (don't know the English word) of course like Winword, for example, makes them so.

[aFrenchie]

An example of the spaces and the comma in numbers under Windows (c:\pagefile.sys properties):

[Cooney]

Originally Posted by aFrenchie

You have seen dots already? Well, I wouldn't be surprised if you found some on the internet or anything computer to prevent one of the spaces that might be at the end of a line to split the number on two lines. Those spaces should be "insécable" (don't know the English word) of course like Winword, for example, makes them so.

Hmm... I'm going to go with "indivisible" for "insécable." Basically, the number should remain together as if it were one word, but if it's at the end of a line of text, some computer programs will seperate it. To prevent this, people will use a dot to make it continuous, thus keeping it on one line?

That is interesting though, as I'd been taught to use a dot to seperate thousands as well. I'd never heard it was done with spaces only.

With the Belgian French seventy, eighty, and ninety... are those things people use and understand in France-proper? Would folks look at me strangely on the streets of Paris if I used "nonante-sept" instead of "quatre-vingt dix-sept?"