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Re:Get started making music by lmm on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @05:33AM (#14306978)
> There is an issue with "kilometer" being a complex word for everyday use (as compared to a mile) in the English language. That's more a linguistic issue that about the unit itself. Other languages have solutions to that with shorter colloquial name for the unit.

Even in English people of a certain age can say "klicks" and be understood.

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Re:Get started making music by ptaipale on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @07:02AM (#14307276)
Exactly, it's something that mass usage will solve, even if the folk song will not sound just the same with "a hundred klicks, a hundred klicks, I am five hundred klicks away from home".

Other languages often say just letters "k" or "km".

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