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Re: OT: the euro & 01.01.02 (was NATLANG/FONT:)

From:J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>
Date:Sunday, December 16, 2001, 21:16
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. > >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... czHANgie, One-of-Many Avatars of Sun WuKong, a.k.a. "Monkey," a.k.a. "TricksterGod of the Han Chinese"; ) Agent Provocateur of/for the Dark Gods of Creative Chaos ; ) Verfremdungseffekt << ostraneniye >> //effetto alienazione// ~ AlienaZi €ffecto ~