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> EB I pine for the day when "hella-" extends the SI prefixes. Sadly, they added "ronna-" and "quetta-" in 2022. Seems like I'll have to wait quite some time

• matzf 3y ago
  > Originally 'quecca' had been suggested for 1030 but was too close to a profane meaning in Portuguese (from https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1681-7575/ac6afd https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1681-7575/ac6afd, via wikipedia) Seems like we missed opportunity to have an official metric fuckton.
  • vasco 3y ago
    For anyone wondering "queca" would be the normal spelling of the "profanity" although it's probably one of the milder ways to refer to "having sex". "Fuck" would be "foda" and variations. Queca is more of a funny way of saying having sex, definitely not as serious as "fuck". Hyundai Kona on the other hand was way more serious and they changed it to another Island in the Portuguese market. Kona's (actual spelling "cona") closest translation would be "cunt", in the US sense in terms of seriousness, not the Australian more light one. Source is I'm portuguese
  • otteromkram 3y ago
    We should petition for "fukka-"
  • xapata 3y ago
    > Two of the suggestions made were brontobyte (from 'brontosaurus') and hellabyte (from 'hell of a big number'). (Indeed, the Google unit converter function was already stating '1 hellabyte = 1000 yottabytes' [6].) This introduced a new driver for extending the range of SI prefixes: ensuring unofficial names did not get adopted de facto. Rats. So close!