> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Tristan McLeay
> Seeing as you're rapidly approaching parity with our dollar, why
not
> just adopt our currency when it happens. We've still got 5c coins
but
> no-one said you have to use them --- I would certainly be more
than
> pleased if we got rid of them. Otherwise, it's 10c/20c/50c/$1/$2.
The
> 50c coins are also a nice dodecagon or something like that. Look
much
> better than the British non-circular coins, which look like they
were
> made by a toddler (what's wrong with a straight edge?). And
> you can get
> dragged into the late twentieth century with real notes made out
of
> stuff that's doesn't grow on trees.
Yes, it gives "plastic money" a new meaning. I still have one of
those red $20's. I liked the idea of different colors for quick
identification at a glance. I don't like the coins though. There's
that problem of sitting down and having $5 in change fall out of
your pocket. That, and it just seemed funny to pay for beer with
coins.