Idea for new section
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Oh noes, you say, what about 109 and 1012? We need those! No worries, we have these beautiful words: milliard and billiard. Now isn't that nice? How can you argue with that?
They don't help us decide whether the person we're reading means a gigadollar or a teradollar when they say "a billion dollars". I say we just scrap all the illions and stick with SI prefixes. They're ugly but unambiguous.
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They don't help us decide whether the person we're reading means a gigadollar or a teradollar when they say "a billion dollars".
They would if we all used the one system. The correct one, if at all possible.
I say we just scrap all the illions and stick with SI prefixes. They're ugly but unambiguous.
That I can work with, too. But I wager that's even harder to achieve than settling on a single -illion system.
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You're not trolling me with that. If that's what it takes for shit to be correctly represented, so be it.
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Fair warning: if anyone tries to make me refer to 1024 bytes as a "kibibyte", I'm going to punch them.
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Fair warning: if anyone tries to make me refer to 1024 bytes as a "kibibyte", I'm going to punch them.
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Like was not enough.
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Fair warning: if anyone tries to make me refer to 1024 bytes as a "kibibyte", I'm going to punch them.
Would 1/1024 Mebibytes suit you better?
Also, do you approve of how my file browser is setup?
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:facepunch:
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<img src="/uploads/default/19218/3932ea18cb06f8e6.png" width="192" height="47">
I don't really like the cut of your GiB.
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Flagged for behaviour unbecoming for a Knight!
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Hey, I gave a fair warning!
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That was supposed to be "of a", not "for a", wasn't it?
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I guess it'd depend on context, they both parse acceptably, I don't know enough about etiquette to say for sure whether one of them is more "coarse" than the other.
English prepositions: lots of fun to learners and native speakers alike!
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From what I could find on the web, either with no preposition at all (conduct unbecoming an officer) or "to" (unbecoming to you) seem to be most common, although other prepositions (of, for, about) are also acceptable. According to dictionary.com, "of" is preferred in British usage.
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"of" is preferred in British usage
Meaning I have failed in my current endeavours. My spellchecker is currently set to UK English and I'm trying to use it properly. I'm basically trying to get this mish-mash of English I'm using straight, at least a bit, since I picked up most of it from various media, picking up words and spellings as I went.
So I went with the variant I'm not as good at (for example, I'd usually use "movie" but my spellchecker is now forcing me to use "film") as something I want to master as much as I can, which will hopefully result in better understanding of differences between them.
And yes, I know, people understand me even if I mix and match, but still, it's a personal goal.
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If you want my opinion, the UK is overrated...
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UK English
mish-mash of English
These are synonyms. As, to be fair, is any other "official" English variant.
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As, to be fair, is any other "official" English variant.
It's kind of the whole point of the language.
