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You're just used to the common prefixes. Kibi is not any weirder than yotta, pico, or deci. They all sound silly if you think about it - so we just don't.

• IshKebab 2y ago
  No it definitely is silly. Mebi is even worse.
  • newzisforsukas 2y ago
    No, its definitely not silly. Why make comments like this? I'll take the repercussions, but passing judgement on language by how things sound is doodoo behavior.
    • robxorb 2y ago
      Not really. It's important for introduced language to sound appealing and appropriate for its use, or it will fail to catch on. If Apple has called the iPhone the gibiFon it'd have been far less likely to turn into the success it was.
      • sabbaticaldev 2y ago
        this implies that Android is as good of a name as iphone and that’s not true. It could be called gibifon and it would be the same
      • viraptor 2y ago
        Do you not remember all the people making fun of eye-phone? And all the sanitary pad memes for iPad? There were so many people who thought those were silly - they got over it with time.