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Re: Space Shuttle Costs
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 15 Dec 1998 18:05:32 GMT
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Nick Taylor <ntaylor@iname.com>
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Dear Mr. Rawding - - -
To _most_ speakers of English 'five billion' does _not_ equal
5,000,000,000. Comments such as yours are what has given
rise to the "Ugly American" syndrome.
- - - Nick - - -
David Rawding - Consultant wrote:
> On Dec 15, 8:52am, Fred Read wrote:
> > Subject: Space Shuttle Costs
> > Michael Chu wrote:
> > >
> > > does anybody here know how much the space shuttle cost?
> >
> > Well in excess of 5,000 Million US dollars (if you don't include the • one
> > that blew up).
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> UMMMMM....you mean 5 billion?
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> > [The humour impaired may require a smiley but I don't do smileys...]
> > --
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> > If it ain't opinionated, it ain't Rich Teer.
> >
> > -- End of excerpt from Fred Read
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Message has 6 Replies:
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| Nick, Cool. I can learn something new everyday. I didnt mean to offend any brits. "Ugly American?" Ouch. Easy Nick. BTW, we won the war : ) Dave. (...) the (...) smileys...] (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Really, just curious, what does it mean? I better watch out. My unwordliness is showing. :) -Paul (pspeed@augustschell.com) (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Can you point out some statistics that support this - I know that the British hold this view, but I wonder about Canadians, Aussies, Indians, etc. (...) Hey, it's our shuttle. and, BTW, 'Ugly American' syndrome is much more than simple word (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Populations, in thousands: UK 58,649 Australia 18,520 New Zealand 3,796 Canada 30,563 ------- 111,528 US 274,028 ------- 274,028 (Figures from "(URL) -Unless I missed 160 million speakers of British English, I don't think I need to comment (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) I have a simple, logical, consistent and *standard* proposal that I think addresses all possible confusion in the matter: number name 1e0 illion 1e3 Killion 1e6 Million 1e9 Gillion 1e12 Tillion 1e15 Pillion 1e18 Exillion (well, *almost* (...) (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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