And some of our differences are very funny and interesting too.
My VERY limited understanding of my native and sole language is that it’s one of the few that arranges the verb and subjects in the order we do. I have to defer this topic to one of our wizard (black magic ) linguists like SugarFreeCandy for any reliable information.

I can share my limited insight with GermanSteve & Dice45 regarding the “names” of numbers. My grasp of the past is that it is not an American / European difference, but a German AND Great Britain / French AND American usage of the “names” of numeric magnitude. We all know and accept that language is a convention and illogical evolution of human verbal sounds. Fortunately mathematics isn’t .
Now we Americans should have some sort of award for STUPID CHOICES as we did decide to use the French verbal notation (instead of their METRIC SYSTEM of functional, quantifying measurements that the whole frigging planet uses, instead of the dysfunctional, cumbersome, senseless system that even the inventors have all but discarded!! (do I have a prejudice:mad).

As this forum does not lend itself to exponentual notation I want to thank Dice45 for his inventiveness. [and I will be happy to share the back-assward way we state thread pitches if you care to PM me]

So here’s what little I know -
We seem to all be together on ones, tens, hundreds etc., up to millions, ten to the sixth power (10^6). After this, it becomes a “pick-a-name-out-your-ass-contest”. For G&GB it’s (10^9)=milliard, (10^12)=billion, (10^15)=billiard, (10^18)=trillion, (10^21)=trilliard. Now for us dumb-shit F&A it’s (10^9)=billion, (10^12)=trillion! That’s it:whiteghos! That’s all we officially have! We do use the arbitrary term “zillion” and “quadzillion” (?4?) to indicate a whole shit pot full, but it really has no known or agreed value. So there!

Now would one of our sweet Pixieites let me up under her skirt to that silky wet spot before I go nuts thinking about this stuff?

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