Posted by Corbomite Carrie on 01/24/08 04:21

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:46:54 -0700, Winfield <doghouse@operamail.com>
wrote:

>Tarkus wrote:
>> Winfield wrote:
>>> Corbomite Carrie wrote:
>>>
>>>> Idiot. A million is a million. Two million is a couple million.
>>>> Three million is a few million. More than three million is several
>>>> million. ALL whole million amounts over 1 million qualifies as
>>>> "millions".
>>>
>>>
>>> Check this out, numb nuts. Sony has sold hundreds of thousands of
>>> PS3's, or Sony has sold several million PS3s.
>>>
>>> Sony has not sold "millions" of PS3's.
>>
>> Congratulations for being the poster child for the failure of the
>> American educational system (assuming you're an American). It's
>> probably the greatest success you'll have in your lifetime.
>
>
>So open a dictionary and look up "million". There is more than one
>definition for the word.

Yes, idiot, and regardless of which one is chosen, when one speaks of
there being more than one of them, it qualifies for the moniker of
"millions". It's called "the plural form".
>
>My success in life doesn't depend on your take of a magazine article's
>number.

But your image as an intelligent suffers quickly if you refuse to
acknowledge the FACT that more than one million, as in "two millions"
qualifies for the plural form of the word, as in "millions".

>Keep dragging your knuckles on the ground like that, and you might end
>up with 3 millions scratches.

No, idiot. It is 3 millions scratches.

It indicates that you were scratched "millions of times" however.

Maybe one day, it will sink in, and you will finally get it.

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