13 Aug
2004
13 Aug
'04
8:03 a.m.
Am 13 Aug 2004 15:35 meinte Roger Merchberger:
Rumor has it that Hans Franke may have mentioned these
words:
>Am 13 Aug 2004 14:14 meinte Roger Merchberger:
>[snip]
>Wer den Pfennig nicht ehrt ist den Thaler nicht wert.
>(He who doesn't honor the Pfennig isn't woth a Thaler - Thaler
>is an old german currency, some 300 years ago ... in fact the
>Dollar is taken from that:)
I know what a Thaler is (but I don't have one...
drat!) -- but my choice
would probably been Guilder. I don't know why, I've always liked the name
Guilder. I do have a few of those.
Jo, even Guldern/Guilder would have been better.
>No, Cent. what a stupid name, I mean, it has no
sound to it.
Yea... uh... gee, thanks! That's what we call
*our* decimal coinage...
(although, even if it says "one cent" on our penny, most people call them
pennies to this day.)
After all, it'S not a name, it just says 1/100th. And there'
not much more stupid to me, than takeing a name from which was
already just made up.
Gruss
H.
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