|
|
Re: the situation is worse than you thought
Posted:
May 4, 2013 11:03 PM
|
|
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
|
|
