They talking about long vs short numbers. In america it goes
Thousand
Million
Billion
Trillion
Quadrillion
etc
While long numbers (used in a lot of european languages) is
Thousand
Million
Millard
Billion
Billard
Etc
though it kinda just ignores other systems also exist like in korean and...
Not really. When I see "it is 38 outside" I go "holy crap ot is blistering" and then realise they meant Fahrenheit and have 0 context of what that means and need look it up so that is just entirely your bias from growing up with it
Eh.... That is anything but universal. And if we go by how humans have treated other humans throughout history, honestly it is more believable to have functionally aex slaves given this very thing still happens in today's world frequently just outside first world places ..:worry: