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kastein:

anyone want to bet on whether it'll handle Exabytes, Zettabytes, Yottabytes, Xonabytes, Wekabytes, and Vundabytes as well?

Shouldn't Trilobytes fit in there somewhere?

kastein:

Who gets naming rights on the one after Vundabytes? Following the backwards-alphabet trend, I think it should be named Uberbytes.

I vote for Godzillabytes.

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kastein:

anyone want to bet on whether it'll handle Exabytes, Zettabytes, Yottabytes, Xonabytes, Wekabytes, and Vundabytes as well?

Shouldn't Trilobytes fit in there somewhere?

brazzy:

Jay Jay:

Wow. I could hear the whoosh of that going over your head from here...

No, that was the sound of an incestual rapist riding a kangaroo to town to get some Apfelstrudel after a hard day of Opal mining.

Anonymous:

The joke about the distinction or lack thereof between Australia and Austria is quite a lot older, and it is not a meme; it is reality. I've so far received 3 packages ordered in the USA(2) and Canada(1) which had been routed via Australia.

oppeto:

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kastein:

anyone want to bet on whether it'll handle Exabytes, Zettabytes, Yottabytes, Xonabytes, Wekabytes, and Vundabytes as well?

Shouldn't Trilobytes fit in there somewhere?

Yes, but Monolobytes and Bilobytes need to come first.
And some idiot American probably starts using Bilo and Trilo wrong.

Anonymous:

It is _not_ a "retarded meme that came into fashion after the arrest of Josef Fritzl". The joke about the distinction or lack thereof between Australia and Austria is quite a lot older, and it is not a meme; it is reality. I've so far received 3 packages ordered in the USA(2) and Canada(1) which had been routed via Australia.

Also, for chinese people, Austria could as well be a city. There are at least four cities with more inhabitants than the entire country and ~20 quickly closing the gap.

Subroutine:

The real problem with ä, ö, ü, å etc. is that English uses vowels really randomly, atleast from a Finnish perspective.
In Finnish, each vowel corresponds to exactly one sound.

In English 'a' is different in 'cat' and 'bar'. (The 'a' in cat should be 'ä' instead.)
In English 'e' is different in 'green' and 'men'. (The 'e' in 'green' should be 'i' instead.)
In English 'o' is different in 'dog' and 'how' and 'moose'. (The 'o' in how should be 'a' instead, 'o' in 'moose' should be 'u'.)
In English 'u' is different in 'true' and 'bug' and 'fur'. (The 'u' in 'bug' should be 'a' instead, 'u' in 'fur' should be 'ö'.)
In English 'y' is a consonant (should be a vowel, should be used like the german 'ü', can't think of a English example offhand) and is used differently in 'my' and 'you'. ('my' should be written 'mai'.)
Funny language :)

i'm just glad that i don't have to write a chinese address... that would look like 上海 to me

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