Re: CHAT: San Marino
| From: | Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 29, 2000, 2:28 |
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> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 20:27:09 -0400
> From: Padraic Brown <pbrown@...>
> On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, DOUGLAS KOLLER wrote:
> Could be due to too little time as an English word? Less exotic
> (due to longer contact) are rials, dinars, roubles, etc. Perhaps
> in a few centuries more, we'll have yuans and yens.
Right, Danish uses dinarer and rubler too, I just forgot them before.
> I'd say "one kroner, two kroners".
Kroner is the (indefinite) plural --- not that that should prevent
any other language from tacking on some more plural endings, but it
looks weird to me. Just call them crowns, that's what it means anyway.
> One lira, two liras.
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> Allright. Two million liras. :)
ITL 2000 is USD 1, within a factor of two, and that has been true for
as long as I can remember.
Danish uses lire as the currency name --- en lire, totusind lire, and
so on. I don't know if it's a danification of lira or if the Italian
plural just got used because it's so rare to talk about one.
Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)