Escapist News Network: On Punctuation

[RTR]

I agree. The hat is dreamy.

 

[MatsJn]

Actually a billion is not "a thousand millions"(10^9), that is a... hum well in my language is "millardo".
A billion is "a million millions"(10^12) witch is a more logical numerical transition. Only the United States English, Brazilian Portugueze, Turkish and Greek use it. I´m not sure about British English.

Yes, the english language has two scales to use when naming large numbers, one is the short scale that gives a new name to every term 1000 times greater than one million, while the long scale gives a new name to every term 1000000 times greater than one million.

So Short scale:
10^6 = million
10^9 = billion

Long scale:
10^6 = million
10^9 = Originally "1000 millions" but can now also be called milliard
10^12 = billion

Predominately, English speaking nations use the short scale, while other countries uses the long scale.

For more information in the matter, please refer to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

It's the hat, chicks dig the hat.

 

[Mattteus]

her necklace is awesome!

dude, a Parappa ref and a Square One ref? awesome! I remember that episode.

 

[Tally LRR]

Kathleen can have the man, but I want that hat!

 

[Schlorgan]

i guess the hat looks ok on yahtzee, lol

 

[the protaginist]

I'm a little dissapointed in myself for watching this before ZP just because "punctuation" was in the title...

The "snake? snake! Snaaaaake!" but was really funny as well.

I really wish I had a coat like Yahtzee's, it's cool.

 

[ucciolord1]

If this show shot a baby kitten in the face, I would still watch it.
That's how good it is.

 

[TheEnglishman]

Damn you Yahtzee, I can't compete with you over Kathleen!

Still hilarious as always.

 

[The Rascal King]

I got that joke!

You know the Fat Boys are STILL around? I can't believe it.

 

[Hamster at Dawn]

It will have punctuation in it and also some zeroes.

 

[ItsAPaul]

Geez, they still don't get that fake news programs aren't funny when you take it completely seriously. You don't see John Stewart with a straight face the entire time, do ya? Good to know when the release of Yahtzee's book is.

 

[Mirrored Jigsaw]

Now the first level of Parappa the Rappa is stuck in my head. Thanks.

 

[Isalan]

Parappa the Rapper quote got me giggling. Nice bit of nostalgia from when crap games were really crap.

 

[copycatalyst]

I expected Paul to close by asking what system(s) it would be available for.

Oh, and I remember Square One and Mathnet! Ah, childhood nerdiness.

 

[Obrien Xp]

I like buying boxed because they don't eat my bandwidth and if my hard-drive wipes I have a disk.

 

[Novur]

I expected Paul to close by asking what system(s) it would be available for.

Damn, I was gonna say that.

I wonder if Mogworld's up for pre-order yet?

 

[Jer_LRR]

I expected Paul to close by asking what system(s) it would be available for.

Kindle, iThing, and the Alienware deadTREE.

 

[Neimo]

Count me among the ten people who got the Square One joke at the end.

 

[epunk35]

Hoarder and collector are wishy washy terms. I like stuff, I like holding stuff, I DON'T like having stuff that can be deleted away especially the kinda non-tangible stuff that costs 50 to 60 bucks. I'll never be full digital. But if people wanna go digital it's perfectly fine.