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

From:Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...>
Date:Sunday, December 16, 2001, 0:53
Quoting Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>:

> "Thomas R. Wier" wrote: > > > Yes. And what's worse is the 'official' plurals are "cent" and > "euro". > > > > Probably pleases the Germans, though. > > 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. ===================================================================== Thomas Wier <trwier@...> <http://home.uchicago.edu/~trwier> "...koruphàs hetéras hetére:isi prosápto:n / Dept. of Linguistics mú:tho:n mè: teléein atrapòn mían..." University of Chicago "To join together diverse peaks of thought / 1010 E. 59th Street and not complete one road that has no turn" Chicago, IL 60637 Empedocles, _On Nature_, on speculative thinkers

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