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satoshii: My word of choice when I pluralize satoshi.

satoshis.

That is so old-school as is satoshiz.

ok, thanks for the fact.

satoshizo

Sitosha

Nope, it's satoshii, now quit trying to change my mind.

satoshii

satoshii

satoshii

1 satoshi, 2 satoshi.
Derivated from proper name = invariable

Well the plural form of pi is 'pis' so i guess the plural of satoshi would be just 'satoshis'?

Traditionally speaking, that is correct. But remember, Bitcoin is breaking tradition, hence...

I prefer satosheeze.

I preffer to reffer to Bitcoins, satoshi feels like free faucet amounts  :D

agree +1

why too much talk about satoshii is something going to happen this

When will satoshi spend his hoarded coins, any idea?

in talk with obama and NSA as they approve its coming   ;)

Never, he can't.
But I'm sure he is close to one Bitcoin business that make him earn some.

I'd like him to withdraw some of his coins though. The mass panic would be epic.

1 satoshi
2 satoshits!

I realize this is a very old thread so I'm kind of sorry for digging it up, but bitcoin wiki (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Satoshi_(unit)?oldid=64982#Plural) used it as a reference to spread some ridiculous misinformation which I feel needs to be addressed.

Although that should be obvious, let me remind you that Japanese doesn't have a grammatical number at all, so there is simply no such thing as a plural that follows the rules of Japanese grammar. The same base form of noun is always used. The closest thing you could get is -tachi or -ra suffices which are sometimes described as an optional plural markers which you could add to emphasize plurality. But don't even think about it, satoshi-tachi would be understood as “Satoshi and his group” (perhaps as an allusion that Satoshi Nakamoto isn't one person) no matter how you capitalize it.

It is true that there are some Japanese words which denote pluralities that are created by reduplication, but if you want to compare it to English, they are more like collective or mass nouns rather than plurals. In particular you can not use them with a numeral. You can't use hitobito to say something like 5 people.

Secondly, and this is the reason I even care, you got the form horribly wrong. As you can clearly see in examples from Yahoo Answers, the whole word is duplicated. Not first syllable, not first mora, not whatever you had in mind when writing that post above.

So it would be satoshizatoshi.

Now the fun part is that your form sounds like something completely different. Had there existed an adjective satoshii (and satoshii sounds like one), then satoshisa would mean a degree to which something is satoshii, a “satoshiiness” (cf. tsuyoi—strong, tsuyosa—strength; takai—high/tall, takasa—height; ōkii—big/large, ōkisa—size/volume; &&c).

I think nope nope nope

But i like

satoshii
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