Re: OT: the euro & 01.01.02 (was NATLANG/FONT:)
| From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, December 16, 2001, 21:16 |
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In a message dated 15.12.2001 04:53:59 PM, trwier@MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU writes:
>> Why should there be an official plural? Shouldn't that be a matter
>> for each language? In German the plurals could be "cent" and "euro",
>> in Italian it could "centi" and "euri" (I think), in Spanish "centes" and
>> "euros", etc.
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>Why an official plural? EU-think, that's why. If not, you'd
>be dangerously close to lacking "European solidarity". There
>can be no diversity, only unity.
eek, "official plural", etc. sounds like AuxLang infiltration to me (or
AuxLang contamination - depending on your antipathy towards _those_
idealistic [idolistic?] schemings).
I wonder if some Interlingua AuxLang _ubervolk_ had anything to do with
this "official plural" bizness...
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"TricksterGod of the Han Chinese"; ) Agent Provocateur of/for the Dark Gods
of Creative Chaos ; )
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