----- Original Message -----
From: "Tristan McLeay" <zsau@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 8:41 AM
Subject: Re: USAGE: Re: Re: [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).)
The Aussie version has Mayfair? Why?