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Exactly. These people are centi-millionaires and beyond employment, promotions, bonuses and all that usual drudgery. I guess the article is funded purely not to
by sytelus 3y ago
Exactly. These people are centi-millionaires and beyond employment, promotions, bonuses and all that usual drudgery. I guess the article is funded purely not to injure egos. But, hey, what is all that downscaling of YC? The article is clearly official press release and paid for.
- PhasmaFelis 3y ago> These people are centi-millionaires They have $10,000?
- lstamour 3y agoThe dictionary suggests this means they have $100 million. Likewise centibillionaire means $100 billion.
- chillingeffect 3y agoWhat dictionary is that? Im American and even here we learned hecto means 100 in 1st grade. Centi means 1/100th. (1) e.g. centifoot = 1/100th of a foot. (1) https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/centi https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/centi
- cshimmin 3y agocentifoot... You had centimeter right there! "Americans will do anything to avoid using the metric system" lol
- eredengrin 3y agoYeah would've made way more sense. Either that or centigrade.
- runlaszlorun 3y agocentipounds?
- smcnally 3y ago“American Football is a game of centiyards, not feet.” — Official Hand-egg rulebook
- brianfitz 3y agohttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/centimillionaire https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/centimillionaire
- HPsquared 3y agoReminds me of how financial newspapers often use a small "m" when describing millions of something. "$500m", or even worse "500m USD"... The engineer in me says that's 50 cents!
- chillingeffect 3y agoIn-depth discussion in this topic: https://xona.com/2006/12/17.html https://xona.com/2006/12/17.html
- lolinder 3y agoHecto- is the Greek root for 100, centi- is the Latin root for 100. The metric prefixes up to 1000 use Greek roots for the large prefixes (10^+n) and Latin for the small (10^-n), but there are also words that are derived directly from the respective Latin roots and therefore don't necessarily carry the metric system's fractional meaning. Someone already linked to the definition of centimillionaire, but here are a few more: * centipede (100 legs, not 1/100 of a leg) * centenarian (100 years old, not 1/100 of a year old) * millennium (1000 years, not 1/1000 of a year)
- a_gnostic 3y agoCentiliter = 0.01L Hectoliter = 100 L
- DirkH 3y agoYou: logic The English language: "allow me to introduce myself!"
- lolinder 3y agoCentipede = 100 legs Etymology is more complicated than "look up the prefix in the metric system tables", and OP is correct about the definition of centimillionaire. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/centimillionaire https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/centimillionaire
- a_gnostic 3y agoCentipede is Entomology
- rglynn 2y agoBrilliant, I laughed out loud
- PhasmaFelis 3y agoI know it is a word people use, and "centi-" is ambiguous without no context, but it's extremely unambiguous in the context of units of measure, and the word "hundred-millionaire" already existed and had the same number of syllables, so it's a really awkward choice.
- Nevermark 3y agoCentennial = 100 years Centurion = Commander of 100 legionaries