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by luismedel 341 days ago
Spain.

But more and more people use "billions" (not billardo, which is our own term for it). The same people that say "diez kas" (for 10k) instead of "diez mil" like they're saving words for doing that (hint: no).

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>The same people that say "diez kas" (for 10k) instead of "diez mil" like they're saving words for doing that (hint: no).

I sometimes say (in Portuguese) "dez kapa".

It's just slang. Language changes a lot faster than you realise, and a lot of words that are "normal" to you would illicit the same response before you were born.