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To: LouAvul

""Ocho billón.""



Geez, they can't even get *that* right. "Eight billion" would be "ocho billones" in Spanish, since one would need to use the plural.

Actually, if one wants to get technical, "eight billion" should be translated as "ocho mil millones" (literally, "eight thousand million") since in Spanish-speaking countries the word "billón" refers to "a million million," not "a thousand million." This is exactly like the traditional use of the word "billion" in Great Britain, in which "billion" was used for "a million million" and the word for "a thousand million" was "milliard."


7 posted on 03/04/2005 4:26:18 PM PST by AuH2ORepublican (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.)
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To: AuH2ORepublican
My favorite sign ever, which I noticed at a bar in Mexico DF back in 1998:

"Hora de Happy Hour"

8 posted on 03/04/2005 4:28:30 PM PST by Clemenza (Alcohol Tobacco & Firearms: The Other Holy Trinity)
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