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Google gets behind 'hella' campaign

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For consistency with the current SI units, the prefix should probably be derived from "nona" which is Latin for nine. 10^27 = (10^3)^9.

10^24 = (10^3)^8 is yotta which is derived from "y" + "octo". They added the "y" to prevent the "o" from being mistaken as 0.

http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/si-prefixes.html

http://members.optus.net/alexey/prefSI.xhtml

http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/1409/

I can't, in good conscience, support this. When someone utters the words "hella cool", I have to be physically restrained from punching the offender in the neck.

Congratulations, you are officially old. Next step: yelling at those kids to get off your lawn.

Considering I was of high school age when "hella" was big, I think I'm entitled to be angry about it.

It's just a bit of fun. There's nothing to be angry about. It's not actually going to become an SI prefix.

Me too! Everyone knows the proper usage is "hella rad." Kids these days have no respect for grammar.

I think we are going in circles.

What if they said "wicked cool" instead?

were talking about NorCal, not the UK.

"Wicked" is a Boston expression as far as I was aware.

Perhaps it is, I only remember it from growing up in London (alongside with massive overuse of "brilliant")

I guess I didn't really garner any intellectual pleasure from this article. Feels more like something i'd see over at digg. Marginally entertaining at best.

Not really what I'm used to seeing on HN.

As a Berkeley grad from SoCal, who attended Berkeley during the rise of hella, I am very much against this. I did everything in my power to stop the spread of hella, but clearly I failed.

As a Berkeley grad from NorCal, your attempts were futile. ;)

Plus, hella was not nearly as annoying as SoCal kids who complained how bad Mexican food is NorCal. All they would do is go on and on about putting french fries in their burritos.

But we right -- the mexican food IS worse. It's made up for by the Thai and Indian food, so it's all good.

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