Hey guys,

I know you all like to have fun here, I do as well....but we need to clean up our language a bit in here...Its really got out of hand. Please use the test that if you wouldn't say it to your 5 year old....don't say it on here..... and if you would say it to your 5 year old...please think about it a little more anyway...LOL




Thanks guys.....

 

I'm with ya on that

 

Ryan is the Minion thread locked, or will there be a part VIIII?

*Edit* or IX for you technical people. lol

 

x2 gdmf10cl

 

Yeah what happened to it? You can ban Dan if youd like. I wont mind

 

which language? I don't have a 5 year old

 

IX I think

 

yeah it is, I just wasnt thinkin bout that.

 

Works with me.

Only time I get out of hand is when some newb starts preaching about BFG A/Ts

Just ban them from the site, and I'll be good.

 

well in theory, that is the thread that just got locked

I = 1
V = 5
X = 10

so VIIII is IX or 9. we should be starting X which is just 10.

if you wanna get real techinical...
I 1 (one) (unus)
V 5 (five) (quinque)
X 10 (ten) (decem)
L 50 (fifty) (quinquaginta)
C 100 (one hundred) (centum)
D 500 (five hundred) (quingenti)
M 1000 (one thousand) (mille)

Multiple symbols may be combined to produce numbers in between these values, subject to certain rules on repetition. In cases where it may be shorter, it is sometimes allowable to place a smaller, subtractive, symbol before a larger value, so that, for example, one may write IV or iv for four, rather than iiii. Sometimes, especially in medical prescriptions, a final i becomes j, such as iij for 3 or vij for 7. This was originally done to prevent forgery.

IIII vs IV
The notation of Roman numerals has varied through the centuries. Originally, it was common to use IIII to represent four, because IV represented the Roman god Jupiter, whose Latin name, IVPPITER, begins with IV. The subtractive notation (which uses IV instead of IIII) has become universally used only in modern times. For example, Forme of Cury, a manuscript from 1390, uses IX for nine, but IIII for four. Another document in the same manuscript, from 1381, uses IV and IX. A third document in the same manuscript uses IIII, IV, and IX. Constructions such as IIIII for five, IIX for eight or VV for 10 have also been discovered. Subtractive notation arose from regular Latin usage: the number 18 was duodeviginti or “two from twenty”; the number 19 was undeviginti or "one from twenty". The use of subtractive notation increased the complexity of performing Roman arithmetic, without conveying the benefits of a full positional notation system.
An inscription on Admiralty Arch, London. The numeral translates to 1910.
An inscription on Admiralty Arch, London. The numeral translates to 1910.

Likewise, on some buildings it is possible to see MDCCCCX, for example, representing 1910 instead of MCMX – notably Admiralty Arch in London. The Leader Building in Cleveland, Ohio, at the corner of Superior Avenue and E.6th Street, is marked MDCCCCXII, representing 1912. Another notable example is on Harvard Medical School's Gordon Hall, which reads MDCCCCIIII for 1904. In Dubrovnik, Croatia, a commemorative inscription marking the 1000th anniversary of King Tomislav’s coronation (Croatia’s first King), appears as DCCCCXXV - MDCCCCXXV (925 -1925).

-cutts-

 

........What he said

 

Im not disagreeing with you Ryan. Ive had to watch my language a few times here lately. Sometimes it slips out and sometimes Im in an altered state of mind but regardless I/we have to follow the rules.

However, how is it our fault that an outsider comes into the minion thread using "bad" language which results in the thread being locked?

 

Fishy,
change your Minion status to "Roman numeral expert"

Random, party of 1?

 

lol, thats all Wiki baby!

-cutts-

 

Feel free to start a new one.....lets just keep it a bit cleaner...

Thanks....


And i think its gotta be X