> What makes it stupid? I don't see your connection.
Well, "stupid" was too strong a word, I apologize for that.
What I meant was that the word seemed to be given in the context as sort
of a "continuation" of the word "millenium", as in "milion, billion,
trillion etc." That etymology would seem a bit strange to me,
considering a millenium is a thousand years. Billenium meaning 2000
years would be more plausible, as "bi" means two, though still a bit
weird, as the first half of millenium is mille, not "mi".
But I am no expert on etymology, and my latin is extremely rusty,
having learned it at school, where I didn't exactly embrace it. So if
there are mistakes on my part above, I apologize again. I just thought
that billenium meaning "billion of years" was odd.
Again, I shouldn't have said "stupid".
-Alex
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