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Countdown to $100 oil (46) - what's a dollar worth? | 42 comments (42 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: C'mon, quite bumming me out... (none / 1)

Assume you're talking in new francs, huh? (Sure beats old francs, all the older generation down south still speaks in those. Hadn't yet migrated to new francs before those were put to pasture, as they soon will be ;)

Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant

by redstar on Thu Sep 13th, 2007 at 05:22:24 PM EST
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Re: C'mon, quite bumming me out... (none / 1)

I have some neighbors who still talk in old francs- everything's in millions. I don't understand it too much; I have to get my wife to translate.
It's funny how many French still express real estate prices in new francs, although I sense that's finally starting to change and we're moving slowly to the euro.

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Thu Sep 13th, 2007 at 06:19:09 PM EST
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Re: C'mon, quite bumming me out... (none / 1)

Try talking real-estate in old francs. Hell, my mother-in-law still talks about consumer items and the days receipts (they're shopkeepers) in old francs. Or salaries in briques, et c. Even I do this last, it's sort of hard not to.

Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant

by redstar on Thu Sep 13th, 2007 at 07:22:30 PM EST
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