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David Gretzschel's avatar

«decamillionaire»

Tens of millions makes sense. My reference says, it's with a k, but who kares.

«centimillionaire ten years older than him,»

Did you really mean someone who had tens of thousands in his bank account?

Or did you mean perhaps hectomillionaire? (someone with hundreds of millions)

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In as much as there's a pattern, the SI system tends to make the small prefixes Latin and the big prefixes Greek, out of the ancient snobbery probably. Democracy>Populism and all that.

Don't worry about learning them too hard, I'll establish an alternative convention soon enough.

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Marky Martialist's avatar

This is a retarded idea mostly because I’m pretty sure that the more you reduce the expectations - including stretching childhood out longer, which is what this is - the worse people will act. The standards will go as low as they are allowed to go.

But I also called something like this about a decade ago. It might happen, albeit without the generous Romeo and Juliet thing. They’re children, they’ll be off limits and the boundaries will be conservative. The kids are too stupid.

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