13 Aug
2004
13 Aug
'04
8:08 a.m.
Am 13 Aug 2004 15:11 meinte der Mouse:
>> Ah, I long for the good ol' days, when
real coins had real names...
> Yes, my suggestion was Franken and Pfennig, both are real coin names,
> both are well known in all European languages (Franken, Franc, Franks
> / Pfennig, Pennig, Penny...)
"All European languages"? Danish? Finnish?
Polish? Slovenian?
English, for that matter? There isn't much of
anything left as far as
I can see related to "frank" as a coin name, at least not in the North
American dialect.
Yeah, what about Penny? My reason to select a real (old)
curency name is that such names are still known by most
people, and usualy attached with a rather positive sence
(aka good old times, when we still could by a horse for
5 Thaler and get a room at an inn for 5 Kreuzer)
> had to come up with the stupis name Euro.
Like the currency itself, I suspect it's largely a
political
compromise.
The story told is that they where more or less finished,
but already talking for two days in a row about the name
thing, until Waigel came with the artificial crap and
forced it doun the throat.
Gruss
H.
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