Re: TRANS.: nat-&-conlang "googolgigglabyte"

 --- Hanuman Zhang asked an interesting question:

>     For my "translations listing" of _googolgigglabyte_ in one of my
> sig.lines, so far I have:
>
> googolgigglabyte    goegolgiechelbijt       googolriderbyte
> googolspassoctet
> ^ English           ^Dutch              ^Interlingua (?)        ^Italian,
> slang version
Just note that "goegol" means absolutely nothing in Dutch, and that "bijt" is
our equivalent of "bite", not of "byte"...

>     I would like a bunch more natlang, auxlang and conlang "specimens" to
> display/show-off ;)
In the Netherlands, the prefix "giga-" did not make it into popular use (yet).
For this purpose we would rather use "mega-" (popular among teenagers, I think)
or the rather old-fashioned "super-".
Therefore, my proposal for a Dutch equivalent would be:
"met een vette megagrijns" (with a fat/phat megagrin/gigagrin)

Jan

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