"You're doing it wrong"Chthonic confesses: "Only last year did I discover why the lids of things in tubes have a recessed pointy bit built into them." Tell us about the facepalm moment when you realised you were doing something wrong.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 13:23)
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That's interestingI didn't know that - I'd always been told that you're not supposed to say "euros"*, and I'd been following the story from the beginning (lived in Eurozone at the time, plus my dad works for the EU). It's language-specific of course, so what I was told may have applied only to German. But then that's redundant because other currency names aren't pluralised in German either. (So in the pre-Euro currency, an English speaker would say "ten Deutschmarks" but a German would say "zehn deutsche Mark".)
* of course, I've always done it anyway. Standard English usage trumps any announcements from some control freak in Brussels.
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Wrong.An English speaker would say "ten Reichsmarks, Fritz" and mention the Kaiser as well.
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flake has nothing against your right leg, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 16:29,
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