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Re: the situation is worse than you thought
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May 4, 2013 11:03 PM
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On May 1, 4:29 am, rickman <gnu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 4/30/2013 4:32 AM, quasi wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Martin Brown wrote: > >> quasi wrote: > >>> RichD wrote: > > >>>> Yesterday, I was on a college shuttle bus. The driver > >>>> was telling a passenger about the alumni donors, that > >>>> you have to give a billion $ to get your name on a > >>>> monument; "Do you know how much is a billion? > >>>> It's about a hundred million" > > >>>> Are bus drivers allowed to vote? This explains much. > > >>> In the UK, a billion _is_ equal to 100 million. > > >> Utter rubbish - that is something daft we tell stupid > >> Americans. > > > Actually, it seems that we Americans (stupid or not) have > > managed to get the UK to change _their_ usage (at least > > officially) to match ours. > > Now if we could only get the world to agree on numerical usage of the > period and comma.
That should be easy. no big deal,
-- Cheers, James Arthur
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