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 May 09, 2008 @ 20:26:49 | #187 | jonnythan
Twinky
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Join Date: Aug 2005 | jmo said:  Does it matter?
Well you seem to be championing the Britishness of the long scale, despite the facts that it's not even British, the alternative short scale has the same origin as the long scale, your government standardized on the short scale 34 years ago, and all British ma** media outlets have standardized on the short scale.
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| May 09, 2008 @ 20:29:49 | #192 | jonnythan
Twinky
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Join Date: Aug 2005 | jmo said:
It is the way that we adopted to use to refer to a million million. It matters not to me why they chose that system, or who they got the inspiration to use it from, the point is that was what was chosen, therefore that is what is correct.
Your country adopted one French scale a few hundred years ago, then recently switched to a different French scale.
This makes the first French scale more British and thus so much better you refuse to give it up even though your government and media have? 
"So buying a PC is now, for me, almost a kind of masturbation, or some elaborate tool for masturbation, the sort of terrifying thing you might see after you've mistyped a URL." -Tycho | | | | Edited: May 09, 2008 @ 20:30 |  |
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