May 15, 2008 08:12
15 yrs ago
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xxx K word

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I know you are all going to laugh your head off, will make a change!!! When a client talks about a 20 K word job... what does this mean? First time I come across K words What on earth is a K word count!!! Do laugh, sure you all know, but I am afraid unsure and glad to get some of you to laugh at my expense!!!
Change log

May 15, 2008 08:35: Tony M changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"

Votes to reclassify question as PRO/non-PRO:

Non-PRO (2): Anne de Freyman (X), Stéphanie Soudais

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Discussion

Anne Bohy May 15, 2008:
FYI... Y2K = l'an 2000
Il y a quelque temps, on le trouvait à toutes les sauces !

Proposed translations

3 mins
Selected

millier de mots

kilo = thousand ;-) (like thousand grammes in a kilo)

PDF] CHIFFRES CLÉS
Format de fichier: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Version HTML
11 mai 2007 ... et/ou dollar. dollar américain. t. tonne métrique. bep. baril équivalent pétrole. kbep/j. kilo (millier) bep/j. kb/j. kilo (millier) baril/j ...
www.total.com/static/fr/medias/ topic1646/Total_en_2006_chiffres_cles.pdf
Peer comment(s):

neutral writeaway : donc 20 millier de mots et pas 20 mille mots?
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "merci à tous, peux pas répartir les points!!! C'atait une question un peu stupide mais étais pas sûre!!! Merci encore à tout le monde!!! On sait par Kudoz que l'on peu compter sur coup de main... espère être capable rendre la pareille!!!"
+19
2 mins

xxx mille mots

k is usual for kilo, i.e. thousands
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3 mins

thousands


Don't worry, I'm not laughing ;]
Yale Career Information Center http://www.som.yale.edu/careers/cic/resume_tips.asp This Yale guide uses K for thousands, M to mean one million, ...
mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/60697.html - 17k

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Note added at 3 mins (2008-05-15 08:16:03 GMT)
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Yes, sorry, I forgot, you need French
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3 mins

k mots

Ne pas traduire k !

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Note added at 9 hrs (2008-05-15 17:43:38 GMT)
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We still see "k" every where and it is normal : from kilometer to k $ !

I think that translating "k" to "mille" would be changing the style ...

Note : "k" is a thousand but one k of ram is 1 024 bytes of RAM ...
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