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

[myself]
>The funny thing is that neither EYPO nor EBPO are written
>with letters which obviously do not belong to the Latin
>set. That is, many uninformed people could simply assume
>hat EYPO and EBPO are just weird words for "euro" in
>*Latin* characters from some obscure European Union
>language. It would be much interesting to have a Greek
>psi or a Cyrillic ya on the euro banknotes.
Just realized that the Greek word is spelled EYP_O_ with
an omega instead of an omicron. So well, at least we have
one genuinely Greek letter on the euro banknotes, though
unfortunately omega looks just like a weird O unlike psi
or xi which look definitely un-Latin.

Cheers,
Javier