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In the long system how is a billionaire called? A milliardaire? That doesn't sound right.
by mattigames 1y ago
In the long system how is a billionaire called? A milliardaire? That doesn't sound right.
- seszett 1y agoMilliardaire yes, of course. Why doesn't that sound right to you? https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_milliardaires_du_monde https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_milliardaires_du_mon...
- mattigames 1y agoIt doesn't sound like English, at least in my brain it doesn't register as English, and I may have found a plausible reason: If you look up the amount of English words with the letters "iarda" on them you only find 3 words (at least according to wordmine.info), but French shows 38 words, even just "arda" the difference is huge: 317 vs 2017 words https://www.wordmine.info/french/words-with?minletters=2&maxletters=45&query=arda https://www.wordmine.info/french/words-with?minletters=2&max...
- seszett 1y agoWell, it's mostly the -aire ending that is uncommon in English, because it comes from French, as far as I know all -aire words in English are straight French loanwords. It's somewhat equivalent to the English suffix -ar. That makes millionaire and billionaire about as unenglish as milliardaire, I think it just doesn't sound weird to you because you see them more often.
- moralestapia 1y ago>It doesn't sound like English [...] Guess what? Some people (70-80% of the world) speak other languages.
- krab 1y agoIn Czech, which uses the long scale, yes. The equivalent of "milliardaire".
- azepoi 1y agoExactly how it's called in french