Jane
About thanks I noticed there are several ways to thank someone, for example : thank you, thanks, many thanks, million thanks. Then can I say "one hundred million thanks" or " billion thanks" ? I mean when I quite thank thank someone, if can I say them like that? By the way, is it right " zero point one billion" = "one hundred million"?
2012년 8월 13일 오후 2:30
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I agree with the above. We don't use more than a million in this instance, i.e. we might say "Thanks a million," but we wouldn't say "Thanks a billion." Just a colloquial thing. From a mathematical standpoint, "zero point one billion," or "zero point two billion," would rarely be said outside of perhaps writing that made comparisons with other numbers that were in the billions (i.e. 1+ billion). For example, "Company X posted a 2.2 billion dollar profit in the first quarter, and a 0.5 billion dollar loss in the second quarter." This lets the reader quickly determine the total profit without having to convert between millions and billions: 1.7 billion. Most other cases, i.e. cases not involving comparisons, would probably state the number in hundreds of millions.
2012년 8월 14일
"Thanks a million" is all you need. We don't have a banking system set up for thank-yous. ;)
2012년 8월 13일
最普通的说法就是 thank you 还是 thanks。 照我的看法,前面的 形容词越多, 说话者的诚意越少。 虽然zero point one billion" = "one hundred million," 但我从未看过这样的写法。
2012년 8월 13일
This is funny, I think ( thank you ) is quite enough.or ( thank you so much )
2012년 8월 13일
There is lots of ways to thank indeed. However if you want to involve numbers, you would typically say : 'Thanks a (number)!' like: 'Thanks a million' And yes 0.1 Billion= 100 000 000...phew, too many zeros.
2012년 8월 13일
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