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why do people say KK instead of Mill?
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Nottheking
Lord
Re: why do people say KK instead of Mill?
The real reason is due to the large Chinese player base on the shard. In Asian languages, (not just Chinese; I've witnessed this among Japanese and I think Koreans as well) I noticed that if they are not familiar with a number, they simply repeat smaller versions to equate it.
As a result, a number of Chinese players here, unfamiliar enough with the SI scaling method, didn't know that "M" is the proper suffix to denote a million, and instead took what they knew, "k" for "thousand" and simply stacked it.
The real reason is due to the large Chinese player base on the shard. In Asian languages, (not just Chinese; I've witnessed this among Japanese and I think Koreans as well) I noticed that if they are not familiar with a number, they simply repeat smaller versions to equate it.
As a result, a number of Chinese players here, unfamiliar enough with the SI scaling method, didn't know that "M" is the proper suffix to denote a million, and instead took what they knew, "k" for "thousand" and simply stacked it.
Nottheking
Lord
Re: why do people say KK instead of Mill?
The particular part that hints at this is that this sort of thing is largely un-heard-of on UO shards with only a negligible Asian player count. Meanwhile, I'd estimate 20-35% of the players on Demise hail from Asia. And similarly, I recall most of the "other games" being mentioned focused heavily on the Lineage games, where something like 70-80% of the players are Koreans.
This is because around 60-70% (or more) of the world's MMO players happen to be Asian. Chinese people make up, for instance, over half of WoW's subscription numbers, and similarly, the high numbers for Lineage/Lineage 2/Aion were all due to their huge Korean playerbase... In fact, I think virtually every MMO with over 1 million players has a minimum of 40% of their players from Asia.Facko;661120 said:
The particular part that hints at this is that this sort of thing is largely un-heard-of on UO shards with only a negligible Asian player count. Meanwhile, I'd estimate 20-35% of the players on Demise hail from Asia. And similarly, I recall most of the "other games" being mentioned focused heavily on the Lineage games, where something like 70-80% of the players are Koreans.
hugoboss
Sorceror
Re: why do people say KK instead of Mill?
well... most ancient civilisations did not have the concept of the number '0' - mathematicians will verify the importance of such an academic discovery - indeed, to various degrees, numbers and language were assigned their individual, unique and specific designations, ideograms, pictoral representation etc in early forms of inter-human communication, be it written or spoken..
- i believe the early south american civilisations and the egyptians used specific pictures to denote words
- the latin / roman system of numbering was fairly cumbersone.. D, C, M etc
- Ntk is correct in that in the chinese language shares similar features in the abovementioned latin system of numbering, whereby 1,000s are stacked
(not sure about korean or japanese tho)
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well... most ancient civilisations did not have the concept of the number '0' - mathematicians will verify the importance of such an academic discovery - indeed, to various degrees, numbers and language were assigned their individual, unique and specific designations, ideograms, pictoral representation etc in early forms of inter-human communication, be it written or spoken..
- i believe the early south american civilisations and the egyptians used specific pictures to denote words
- the latin / roman system of numbering was fairly cumbersone.. D, C, M etc
- Ntk is correct in that in the chinese language shares similar features in the abovementioned latin system of numbering, whereby 1,000s are stacked
(not sure about korean or japanese tho)
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Wie Yu So Bad
Wanderer
Re: why do people say KK instead of Mill?
No idea.wesmiley;661106 said:
Nottheking
Lord
Re: why do people say KK instead of Mill?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_mkwB9ayK4
Digatalas;661123 said:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_mkwB9ayK4
Re: why do people say KK instead of Mill?
After planning to major in some type of science field and getting in depth into my science classes... We INSTANTLY receive ZERO credit for a problem if we use any American derived unit... Fahrenheit for example... Must be converted to Celsius then to Kelvin.
You have to admit that having 212 degrees for a boiling is a bit retarded considering 32? is the freezing point. 0 - 100 is easiest to me. 0, frozen 100, gas. EASY.
Dollpartz;661145 said:
After planning to major in some type of science field and getting in depth into my science classes... We INSTANTLY receive ZERO credit for a problem if we use any American derived unit... Fahrenheit for example... Must be converted to Celsius then to Kelvin.
You have to admit that having 212 degrees for a boiling is a bit retarded considering 32? is the freezing point. 0 - 100 is easiest to me. 0, frozen 100, gas. EASY.
