What about "ubit", pronounced "YOU-bit",= representing 1e-6 bitcoin? Easy to say, tied in a visual way to the metric= micro, leaves the required 2 decimal places for the marginally numerate.. = What more could one want?

Also, hi. My first post; plan to get involved over the south= ern hemisphere winter if I can learn enough.

On Apr 20, 2014 4:32 PM, "Mike Caldwell&quo= t; <mcaldwell@swipeclock.com= > wrote:

By culturally neutral I mean we avoid deliberately invoking a cultural refe= rence in the name. =C2=A0For example "satoshi" would be a referen= ce to Japanese culture just for being a common Japanese name regardless of = who Satoshi turns out to be.

Mike

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> On Apr 20, 2014, at 1:20 PM, "Christophe Biocca" <christophe.biocca@gmail.com>= wrote:
>
> Culturally neutral? "bit" in French phonetically collides wi= th slang
> for phallus ("bitte", with a silent "e"). Apparent= ly it means "louse"
> in Turkish as well.
>
> Not that this really would be avoidable with any short word (all the > short possible words are usually taken), but it's not neutral.
>
>> On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Oliver Egginger <bitcoin@olivere.de> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> just my two 'cents':
>>
>> Terms arises by itself. Just as most people speak of coins when th= ey
>> mean bitcoins. I do not see that bitcoin is currently in common us= e
>> except for speculation. Therefore no term for smaller units has >> established yet. No problem in my eyes. Time will tell.
>>
>> - oliver
>>
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