On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 09:57:27AM +0100, Yeastplume wrote: > > More humbly; I agree ‘quid' is a good word, it rolls off the tongue much > better than ‘pound’, so saying ‘thirty quid’ feels more natural than ‘thirty > pounds’. Unfortunately it very much remains in common usage in the U.K. I’m > not entirely sure how to describe this phenomenon, so without trying to be > smart, let me give you an example: Imagine I’m from England and I’ve just > made a serious suggestion to you, an American, that the currency should be > called ‘bucks’… as in “I’ll give you thirty bucks for lunch”. Nobody says > ‘bucks’ in the UK unless they’re emulating Americans for comedy value, so it > all sounds jolly amusing, and I give you a few other examples of how the word > ‘bucks’ can be used in reference to the crypto currency. Let your reaction to > that suggestion wash over you for a bit, (perhaps smile and nod a bit if > you’re being polite), and that’s precisely the reaction you’ll get from > anyone in the UK or Ireland at the suggestion the currency should be called a > ‘quid’. > > With apologies > -YP
I think this is a pretty serious confusion, and that we should avoid "quid" for this reason. -- Andrew Poelstra Mathematics Department, Blockstream Email: apoelstra at wpsoftware.net Web: https://www.wpsoftware.net/andrew "A goose alone, I suppose, can know the loneliness of geese who can never find their peace, whether north or south or west or east" --Joanna Newsom
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