Author Topic: I'm not anti-capitalist but this is ridiculous  (Read 1748 times)

librarian

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I'm not anti-capitalist but this is ridiculous
« on: 22 November, 2008, 02:26:45 pm »
Milliard is obsolete

Perhaps in English.

When I starting having increasing contact with people from Ukraine I was a bit puzzled by their use of the word мільярд (milliard) where I expected them to use більйон (billion).  I feel safe in assuming the same holds true in Russian, Belarusian and most (all?) of the languages of the former USSR.

Thousands of millions from the Ukraine eh?

All I seem to get is contact from people in Nigeria but they're stuck down in the tens of millions of dollar range:-

"$22,000,000 (TWENTY TWO MILLION US DOLLARS)"