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no really, billion has different meaning around the world. personally I’m a fan of gigabucks, way shorter to say than “billions of dollars”

In France, they use "milliard" for billions.

Yup, the long and short scale[1].

Amusingly I think he'd understand your request at least...

Have you genuinely never seen people refer to, say, $10k to mean ten thousand dollars? It's very common.