Talk:mil millones
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RFD[edit]
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SOP; just "a thousand millions". —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 02:37, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
- Hmm. The French for eighty is quatre-vingts, ‘four twenties’. Is that sum of parts? Ƿidsiþ 06:53, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
- It a standard term, much more usual in Spanish than "thousand million" is in English. English likes the word billion, but Spanish is uncomfortable with that and finds it ambiguous and confusing. Mil millones is no more SOP than many other numbers in most languages, including two hundred, fifty-two, осмь на дєсѧтє, dek ok, ten thousand, einundzwanzig, etc. —Stephen (Talk) 07:10, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
- Honestly, I think that dek ok and similar oughtn't to exist, but it appears that I'm against precedent on this one. —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 15:50, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
- It a standard term, much more usual in Spanish than "thousand million" is in English. English likes the word billion, but Spanish is uncomfortable with that and finds it ambiguous and confusing. Mil millones is no more SOP than many other numbers in most languages, including two hundred, fifty-two, осмь на дєсѧтє, dek ok, ten thousand, einundzwanzig, etc. —Stephen (Talk) 07:10, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
- Keep: Romance languages don't use billion the way English does, so we should keep this. Purplebackpack89 14:05, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
- Keep: According to the Spanish Wikipedia article Millardo: "Un millardo es el número natural equivalente a 109 (1 000 000 000) cuyo nombre normal en español es mil millones." ("A milliard is the natural number equivalent to 109 (1,000,000,000) whose normal name in Spanish is mil millones.") See also the RAE entry for millardo. The Obento Musubi (talk) 06:16, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
- This reminds me of the Japanese counting system. 百万 literally translated would mean "one hundred ten-thousands" and is the Japanese word for million. I also found an interesting article on CNN en español that utilizes "mil millones de dólares". [1] The Obento Musubi (talk) 19:00, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
- Keep on my favorite principle that if a very common multi-word term has a rarer attested single-word synonym (which in this case is Spanish millardo), the multi-word term should be kept even if transparent (sum of parts). Thanks for the post above by The Obento Musubi. --Dan Polansky (talk) 08:27, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
Kept. bd2412 T 15:29, 3 July 2015 (UTC)