Re: CHAT: The EU expands (was Re: THEORY/CHAT: Talmy, Jackendoff and Matchboxes)

Jean-François Colson wrote:

>Will Russia never join the EU in my lifetime (I'm 28)?
>Yes I know Russia has an important part of Asia in it and then the EU would
>become the Eurasian Union ;-) , but is that really impossible in the near
>future? I remember Putin didn't say "no" in an interview on a French TV.
>
>On the European bank notes (billets de banque), the word EURO is written in
>the Latin and Greek alphabets. Will we have new banknotes when Byelorussia
>join?
>
>
Rather Bulgaria, I think. I guess that Cyrillic will appear eventually
on the notes, but maybe they'll wait until
the first redesign after Bulgaria's accession to add it. I can't imagine
it being added on the spot.

Ah, but just wait until Armenia joins! :)

s.

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times also,  I began modern maths textbooks, saying to myself that if I were
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exercises
and all, there was no reason why I should stall              -- George Perec

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