Re: OT: LWII: The Euroclones Strike Back!

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> > Quite! Good coinage, too, "esperantoid". I didn't
> > know you were supposed to capitalise "eurocents"?
> > I also thought that the plural was officially set
> > at "eurocent".
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>See Michael Everson's page at http://www.evertype.com/standards/euro/
I had the idea of calling the European unit of currency the TOMA, MOTA,
MATO, TAMO, or some such (whatever combination you can get which is obscene
in no European language), the idea being that it works with the Roman,
Greek or Cyrillic alphabets and should get about the same pronunciation
across languages (to the best of my knowledge).

(I hope the above is conlanging sufficiently for this not to be OT!)

Though really I wanted to use SI prefixes and make the unit, say, the
attodollar.  This not only gives somewhere to go in the event of (even
excessive) inflation, but (remembering how shocked the Americans were when
we went to Florida from Jamaica in 1973 to find out someone else had a
dollar worth more than theirs, as it was then) we could boast that the
European dollar was worth vastly more than the entire US national debt. :)

Not that we would own a dollar, of course...

Ian