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Re: USAGE: Currencies and -s

From:BP Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Wednesday, August 30, 2000, 8:12
At 01:09 30.8.2000 -0500, Thomas R. Wier wrote:

>Except that English speakers do not speak about "crowns" with reference >to currency unless they want to sound like an eighteenth century Enlightenment >philosopher, so we don't use that term. :)
Well, then you have to learn to distinguish between "krona/kronur" "krona/kronor" "krone/kroner" "kroona/kroonad" and whatever the Czech call theirs in the plural, and use them properly, or change your way of thinking. Anyway 50 öre (1/2 krona) is the last < 1 SEK denomination still recognized, so you soon won't run the risk of having to say "half a crown"! ;-)> We really do prefer _crown_ as the aAnglification -- and THW eighteenth century Enlightenment philosophers! -- rather than having our native terms mangled. I suppose you know what a _putto_, plural _putti_ is? Since the plural is so much more common some Swedes use it as a singular, coining the false "foreign" plural _puttis_ then some people reanalyse _-is_ as a Swedish diminutive ending, and coin the new plural _puttisar_.(*) I'm sure you find **that** as abominable as I do, so why insist on the right to mangle the word(s) for our currencies. Y'all better just say SEK /'es'ij'key/, NOK /'en'ow'kej/, DKK /'dij'kej'kej/ etc.! (* The proper Swedish plural should be _puttoer_, BTW!) /BP 8^)> -- B.Philip Jonsson mailto:bpX@netg.se mailto:melrochX@mail.com (delete X) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Truth, Sir, is a cow which will give [skeptics] no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull." -- Sam. Johnson (no rel. ;)