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by tiagod 341 days ago
>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.