Re: OT: the euro & 01.01.02 (was NATLANG/FONT:)
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, December 23, 2001, 11:33 |
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En réponse à Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...>:
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> When I had first-year French in a Danish school (1976) the authors of
> the textbook still thought they needed to have an example of someone
> quoting the rent for a flat in old Francs. (Something like soixante
> mille, i.e., FRF 600 per month).
>
He he, this habit still lives nowadays. For prices like that, people often
refer to them with old Francs, but don't mention the currency. It seems that
people don't like prices in hundreds or thousands, and prefer them in tens of
thousands or hundreds of thousands :))) . In order not to be mistaken, I alwasy
take that they speak in centimes :)) .
Christophe.
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