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<p dir="ltr">What about "ubit", pronounced "YOU-bit", representing 1e-6 bitcoin? Easy to say, tied in a visual way to the metric micro, leaves the required 2 decimal places for the marginally numerate.. What more could one want?</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Also, hi. My first post; plan to get involved over the southern hemisphere winter if I can learn enough.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 20, 2014 4:32 PM, "Mike Caldwell" <<a href="mailto:mcaldwell@swipeclock.com">mcaldwell@swipeclock.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
By culturally neutral I mean we avoid deliberately invoking a cultural reference in the name. For example "satoshi" would be a reference to Japanese culture just for being a common Japanese name regardless of who Satoshi turns out to be.<br>
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> On Apr 20, 2014, at 1:20 PM, "Christophe Biocca" <<a href="mailto:christophe.biocca@gmail.com">christophe.biocca@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Culturally neutral? "bit" in French phonetically collides with slang<br>
> for phallus ("bitte", with a silent "e"). Apparently it means "louse"<br>
> in Turkish as well.<br>
><br>
> Not that this really would be avoidable with any short word (all the<br>
> short possible words are usually taken), but it's not neutral.<br>
><br>
>> On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Oliver Egginger <<a href="mailto:bitcoin@olivere.de">bitcoin@olivere.de</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Hello,<br>
>><br>
>> just my two 'cents':<br>
>><br>
>> Terms arises by itself. Just as most people speak of coins when they<br>
>> mean bitcoins. I do not see that bitcoin is currently in common use<br>
>> except for speculation. Therefore no term for smaller units has<br>
>> established yet. No problem in my eyes. Time will tell.<br>
>><br>
>> - oliver<br>
>><br>
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