Originally Posted By: The Pook
 Originally Posted By: TheFallibleFiend
A friend brought my daughters a coprolite of some ~30K cat scat

Sorry, not being nit picking or pedantic, just trying to understand this sentence - is "brought" a typo or Southern idiom for "bought"? And am I right in assuming that ~30K = 30,000 years before present time?


The tilde means "about," and, yes, the K means 1000, I should have written 'y' after 'K'.

I'm not sure whether 'brought' is a Southern idiom, though I could have accurately wrote that he "bought" the specimen for them, he afterwards brought it with him all the way back east.