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[–] 18 points 5 months ago

Similarly, one thousandth of a tary equals one military.

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    It bothers me that it’s a thousand and not a million. Numbers shouldn’t work that way.

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

    It was a thousand for millennia. Why should it stop now?
    That's just English barbarism.

    ... the current use was proposed in the late 18th century my the French.

    Proposed in 1793, and adopted in 1795, the prefix comes from the Latin mille, meaning one thousand (the Latin plural is milia).

    wiki/Milli-

    In Italian it goes mille --> milione. Which is og correct, but doesn't help the situation.

    What I hate is that ppl will sometimes fuss if I use "k" prefixes.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Why is a millennia not a MILLION YEARS 😩😩😩

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

    Bcs a mille is 1000.
    A much bigger mille is 1000000.

    One megayear would be a millenniona? :|

    million(n.)

    "ten hundred thousand, a thousand thousands," late 14c., milioun, from Old French million (late 13c.), from Italian millione (now milione), literally "a great thousand," augmentative of mille "thousand," from Latin mille, which is of uncertain origin. From the start often used indefinitely for "a very great number or quantity."

    etymonline.com/million

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    A millie a millie a millie…

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Would each Millie Bobby Brown have its own mini Whitney Houston, or would all 1000 Millie Bobby Brown's need to gather in one place in order to summon the undead Whitney?

    P.S. Undead Whitney Houston looks just like that creepy girl from The Ring, but with a sodden joint hanging out of her mouth.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago

    Celebrities are always shorter than you think they are.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago

    i am the american dream

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Why is everybody talking, all of this stuff about them? Why don't they just let them live?

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Millie Bobby Brown is least problematic Bobby Brown

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    A megaphone contains 10¹² (a trillion) microphones. A total surveillance state does not sound that impossible now, right?

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    Yeah, imagine that - you can't, the number is too high.

    Now tell me why does Trilby Bobby Brown even exist?? That is too many Millies!!!

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    But can she launch a ship?

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