Re: USAGE: [T] -> [f] (formerly ChineseDialectQuestion)

On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Joe wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nik Taylor" <yonjuuni@...>
> To: <CONLANG@...>
> Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 6:42 AM
> Subject: Re: USAGE: Re: Re: [T] -> [f] (formerly ChineseDialectQuestion)
>
>
> > Nik Taylor wrote:
> > > Yep.  We have a British Monopoly set back home that someone we knew (I
> > > forget just who) bought for us when they went to England.  We also have
> > > a German edition bought by someone who went to Germany.  :-)
> >
> > Funny thing about the German edition is that all the prices are
> > multiplied by 20.  The smallest bill is the 20 Deutschmark, you get 4000
> > Deutschmarks for passing go, etc.  The British just replaced dollars
> > with pounds, but kept everything the same.
>
> Although in the 1930s, they should have divided everything by 4, for total
> accuracy.  Whcih means Mayfair would have cost 100 pounds.
And they should've doubled the pounds value to get the Australian dollars
value, so Mayfair would've been $200 in the Aussie version :) (The
Australian dollar was originally half a pound sterling, so that a penny
was about a cent. Every Victorian should know this from their excursion to
Sovereign Hill (a place in Ballarat^WBallarrat (to use the spelling they
used then) designed to be like Ballarrat of the Gold Rush era. Prices
there are all in pounds of two dollars).)

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Tristan                  <kesuari@...>

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still
be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.
                -- Snoopy

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