20th Edition of Record Day - 30th of August, 2025

[The Jonster]

Wow, so a billion is actually a trillion???? Why does this make me sceptical...

[DaveRattlehead]

Yup, was confusing af the first time I heard it xDDD

[PluMGMK]

And also, billion has a different meaning...

Billion in Spanish is 1.000.000.000.000

Oh yeah, that's the case for all the European languages. But the Americans had to switch it all up, and then dragged the rest of the Anglosphere along with them

[The Jonster]

Hmmm then i wonder what you'd call 1,000,000,000?

[PluMGMK]

Milliard

[EdgyRabbid]

Canadas weird with languages. We use European English but Franco Ontariens have their own French dialect.

[Steo]

Oh yeah, that's the case for all the European languages. But the Americans had to switch it all up, and then dragged the rest of the Anglosphere along with them

So they decided "hey Jim, let's divide all the numbers by 1000 and give them the same name"... "Great idea Jim! Give this man a raise!"

[The Jonster]

Milliard

wut
I never heard of this term before

[EdgyRabbid]

Wait isn't Millard like.. a fruit?

[PluMGMK]

So in European languages (and older European English, not anymore), it was like
Thousand = 103
Million = 106
Milliard = 109
Billion = 1012
Billiard = 1015
Trillion = 1018
Trilliard = 1021
etc.

But the Americans decided to take out the "-iard" steps and just condense the whole thing down

[The Jonster]

Ah i see. Where is Zilliard then in this case.

[PluMGMK]

Well there's no such thing as a Zillion, so there wouldn't be a Zilliard either

[The Jonster]

My next question then is what the's highest one

[EdgyRabbid]

NGL in French its confusinf

mil= k
million=million..

I don't know why they complicate things!!

[PluMGMK]

Well, "million" was derived from "mille" as meaning "mille mille", but then English borrowed the French term instead of coming up with its own "thousand thousand" term. So if English seems less confusing, it's just because it borrowed one French term but not the other

[EdgyRabbid]

what the fuck is up with French French?? im too Frenglish for this shit

[PluMGMK]

My next question then is what the's highest one

Highest? I don't think there is a highest one, though obviously they get more and more awkward as you keep going up.

what the fuck is up with French French?? im too Frenglish for this shit

Metropolitan French? Is it that different from Québecois French?

[EdgyRabbid]

It's basically English + French, it was devloped over time with our culture with us French ontariens. I think this came about after the French ban of 1912, as children started to mix the two due to them not learning french at school past the second grade.

[PluMGMK]

Ah OK, bona fide Frenglish!

Aaand I've reached the total number of posts I made last year. Time for a bathroom break

[EdgyRabbid]

Oh yeah! Take a shit!

I think I might try taking a two hour nap tbh