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

From:Javier BF <uaxuctum@...>
Date:Sunday, May 2, 2004, 23:12
>> 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? > >I'm sure they will and it'll be EBPO.
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.
>I'll be interesting if/when Israel >(and perhaps Lebanon) joins and both Hebrew and Arabic become official.
I've never understood what is the logic of having Israel in Eurovision, given that Israel is definitely not in Europe. Cheers, Javier

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