Gonna be a mess - got an excuse to agitate

[Irving]

Since when have people started using a capital "G" as a short hand for thousand? I mean in the sense of an article title, not a rap song.

[Gman]

Since when have people started using a capital "G" as a short hand for thousand? I mean in the sense of an article title, not a rap song.

That's what I noticed as well when seeing the headline. I had to open the article to be sure. Not sure why they didn't say "$46K".

Then again, the English language is butchered regularly by media. Nobody proofreads. I think the authors are also given editorial control over their own content, so they're blind to their mistakes. The thought is in their head, so they don't realize how their words don't accurately convey their message.

[Great-Kazoo]

Since when have people started using a capital "G" as a short hand for thousand? I mean in the sense of an article title, not a rap song.

Since they started using twitter as the basis for any news story. TWITTER POSTER IS SHOOK AT LANGUAGE USED IN RIOT, BY STATE POLICE.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/dont-kill...190018332.html

Krystal Marx, the woman who captured the footage, said the incident left her “shaking.”




Krystal, in the real world some people use much worse language than that. BESIDES. you should be applauding said trooper for exercising restraint.

[Aloha_Shooter]

Since when have people started using a capital "G" as a short hand for thousand? I mean in the sense of an article title, not a rap song.

Since at least the 1920s. Long before the Internet age caused people to refer to thousands as kilos and hence "K", organized crime and then pop culture referred to thousands as "grand" or "G".

[Irving]

I guess $46K makes even less sense than $46G, at least from the perspective of someone learning English anyway.

[Irving]

Referring to thousands as "K" has been around a lot longer than the internet.

[battlemidget]

Referring to thousands as "K" has been around a lot longer than the internet.

I like 'M' better

[roberth]

I like 'M' better

Just how old are you? Mamma Mia!!

[Gman]

Andrew McCarthy: 'Institutional racism' among police? Let's look at the numbers
Another revelation of white privilege:

About twice as many white people as black people are killed by police. In fact, in about 75 percent of police shootings, the decedent is not black.

Of course, that is not what you would grasp from consuming media.

Take the website statista.com, specifically its breathless focus on “Hate crime in the United States” — counterfactually insinuating that any shooting involving a black victim must be a “hate crime.” Here’s their big headline from Tuesday: “Black Americans 2.5X More Likely Than Whites to Be Killed By Police.”

It is fiction. It is sheer demagoguery, peddled as American cities are besieged by rioters in the wake of George Floyd’s killing by Minneapolis police.

The falsity of the claim is demonstrated even by statista.com itself. Just three days ago, the site posted another series of bar graphs, showing that, in fact, whites are nearly twice as likely as blacks to be shot to death by police. Here are the numbers:

Year White Black

2017 457 223

2018 399 209

2019 370 235

2020 (so far) 42 31

[MrAK]

Andrew McCarthy: 'Institutional racism' among police? Let's look at the numbers
Another revelation of white privilege:

Sounds legit. The counter argument I’ve seen to that is percentage of the population.



White alone, not Hispanic or Latino drops the number down to 60.4%, which is still almost 5x the population of African Americans