D. N. Vercáriâ
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(last post: March 15, 2008 - 16:51)
Citizen #26:
Dieter N Vercáriâ | > > > > I'm sort of preferential to the old pan-European system:
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> > > > 1 libra = 20 solidi = 12 denarii
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> > > > Not so exotic to Commonwealth people, but it has a long history.
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> > > And not exotic to me, as I learned this along with my English lessons.
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> > True. When I started learning the language, it was two years since decimalisation. But today, it is both peculiar and very historic.
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> Well, if we want to go that uncreative way, then 1 pengö = 20 itrìns = 12 etâs would work.
I'd wish to create a legal container in which the numismatics and financial nerds in our nationette can have their fun as much as the linguists are having their fun in their own sandbox. The small problem might be that even by creating an casus that no human language has ever seen before yet, no international laws will be violated - while in some foreign countries minting coins or printing banknotes that are supposed to be legal tender may be a high road to jail. Also, we must not become a moneymaking scheme (we should also avoid the impression of being people who want to go that way), and finally, those who do not want to contribute to the creation of a Talossam currency must not be pressed into this.
I'm not saying that anybody intends to do what I painted in black above. We need some careful discussion before going any further. But eventually the best thing would be having a framework in which riders of a numismatic hobby horse can have loads of fun, thus contributing to a diversification of our Republic.
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- Dieter
A long history is fine, a long future is better.
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