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 May 09, 2008 @ 19:43:32 | #123 | jmo
TFS Monkey
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18/M/Aberdeen/Stirling, United King
Join Date: May 2006 | jonnythan said:
In the British "long scale,":
1,000,000 = one million
1,000,000,000 = one thousand million
1,000,000,000,000 = one billion
1,000,000,000,000,000 = one thousand billion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000 = one trillion
These are:
one million
one billion
one trillion
one quadrillion
one quintillion
On our "short scale"
In 1974, the British government officially abandoned the long scale, so, in ma** media and currency, their "billion" is the same as ours.
JMO is being silly and xenophobic.
In maths in 2005 I was tought that the correct Billion was 1 million million.
We were told that Americans call it 1000 million, but in Britain a billion is a million million.
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| May 09, 2008 @ 19:48:18 | #130 | vekta
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Join Date: Feb 2008 | pete said:
The thing is, if jmo truely believes what he is saying, then shouldn't you be going more for Gaelic, (lol if my history is correct, which it propbably isnt) since that used to be the langauge of scotland, before english took over
I think he's unintentionally thinking of the fact that there were parts of Britain that the Romans never controlled somewhere in the north. "English", as it was, wasn't impacted by the Roman overlay at the time. Still the "English" spoken by those free people was still closer to a primitive form of German.
The big turning point was after the last Roman Legions left Britain, the free people were left open to attack by the Anglo Saxons. After that English evolved rapidly from one form to another. From the beginning the language was a sponge and sucked up bits and pieces from a bunch of others.
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