[HN Gopher] Quixotic Californian crusade to officially recognize...
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       Quixotic Californian crusade to officially recognize the hellabyte
        
       Author : samizdis
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2021-01-15 10:01 UTC (12 hours ago)
        
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       | tanseydavid wrote:
       | This has been a NorCal phrase since I first visited in 1983 as a
       | sophomore in HS. At that time it was so very cool and West Coast
       | sounding to my ears, and instantly understandable in context.
       | 
       | Kids with stricter upbringings had to settle for saying "Hecka"
       | which is still funny to me.
       | 
       | Interesting side-note: the same Cali kids that introduced me to
       | the slang word "Hella" also used the word "tight" as a slang word
       | with negative connotation, as in:
       | 
       | "My parent's grounded me for a month" "Oh man, that's hella
       | TIGHT"
       | 
       | But over the years "tight" has managed to flip to a positive
       | connotation and mean 'cool', 'sweet' etc.
       | 
       | "Hella" still means "HELLA" though.
        
         | chronomex wrote:
         | If "hella" is 10^27 then clearly "hecka" would be the correct
         | name for 10^-27.
        
       | m-chrzan wrote:
       | Would the inverse prefix, for 10^-27, be holi-?
        
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