Post A3PIvFuBngDpyHQ6rI by thor@pl.thj.no
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(DIR) Post #A3PGbNLiDMXHMGgciG by thor@pl.thj.no
2021-01-19T20:32:51.580550Z
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us euros on fedi are pretty bad at focusing on ourselves, talking among ourselves, just being Europeans.i mean, by necessity, the main language we share is English, but perhaps we should be viewing this as more of a tool than something that ties us to the Anglosphere.
(DIR) Post #A3PGlCnQIzYjWZKqxM by thor@pl.thj.no
2021-01-19T20:34:39.470421Z
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how often is dönerkebab, popular drunk food across much of Europe, mentioned here? as far as i can tell, hardly ever.what about technical talk about 230V power supplies an 50 Hz mains?what about EU stuff?as far as i can tell, the Germans and the French just speak their languages, leaving out the rest of us, and the people who post in English adapt to the Anglosphere.
(DIR) Post #A3PH2lfbtjNGbh3UTA by thor@pl.thj.no
2021-01-19T20:37:48.368726Z
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when i quote prices for things, i use Euros. the Scandinavian countries aren't a part of the Eurozone. Sweden and Denmark are in the EU but don't use the Euro. in Finland (strictly speaking a Nordic country but not a Scandinavian one) they use euros.the reason i quote things in euros is because it's big enough to be a world currency, on par with the dollar, and since i'm in Europe...
(DIR) Post #A3PHEXI7BUKjUDg2CG by piggo@piggo.space
2021-01-19T20:39:57.663048Z
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@thor NOK sounds way cooler though
(DIR) Post #A3PHFhKlKbESvHTAJs by thor@pl.thj.no
2021-01-19T20:40:09.660297Z
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i believe the reason the Scandinavian countries haven't adopted the euro is as followsthey all use currencies named "kroner" (crowns). the three currencies are roughly on par in terms of their exchange rate. within 20% of each other or so.thus, the Scandinavian region of Europe has a tradition of using that, and it seems that most of us just prefer it.
(DIR) Post #A3PHP0TDYHq4sarZ6e by thor@pl.thj.no
2021-01-19T20:41:49.934716Z
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@piggo NOK is NOrske Kroner (Norwegian crowns)there is also SEK, SvEnska Kronor (Swedish crowns)and DKK, DansKe Kroner (Danish crowns)in all three countries, the currency is domesically known as kroner / kronor.
(DIR) Post #A3PHPkJD7pAP2sXDtY by 9pHpqtuYyu48GpbMRM.erm67@erm67.dynu.net
2021-01-19T20:40:15Z
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@thor @thor Maybe it is because, unfortuantely not so many speak other languages ...But yeah, a bit more Europeanism would be better.
(DIR) Post #A3PHQD4gAvm4GCxWls by piggo@piggo.space
2021-01-19T20:42:03.872752Z
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@thor i dont know the real reason we didnt switch, but our coins and notes are pretty, whereas euros all suck
(DIR) Post #A3PHQjRpoNJIfI2TJ2 by thor@pl.thj.no
2021-01-19T20:42:09.866035Z
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@erm67 the EU uses English as the shared language though.
(DIR) Post #A3PHRxxLM7fjx1MhyC by piggo@piggo.space
2021-01-19T20:42:23.463503Z
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@thor i know that lol
(DIR) Post #A3PHTz44CoK5y4TLIu by thor@pl.thj.no
2021-01-19T20:42:45.135051Z
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@piggo good, but i wouldn't expect most foreigners to.
(DIR) Post #A3PHWR3z4uZZNpbQHI by piggo@piggo.space
2021-01-19T20:43:11.946063Z
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@thor I'm not a USian lmao
(DIR) Post #A3PHY1SVFKPoYFpO6K by thor@pl.thj.no
2021-01-19T20:43:28.978155Z
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@piggo no, but we are small countries.
(DIR) Post #A3PHej0CGWx9Kvmejg by maxmustermann@shitposter.club
2021-01-19T20:44:41.675606Z
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@thor That's because the EU is doomed anyway and national politics doesn't move in most countries. The only meaningful changes are taking place in the Visegard 4 and Italy.The reason why people adopted to the Anglosphere has also a political nature. Most German speaking users are from the camp of the failed Pirate party or the Greens. Not very friendly to Image Board shitposters who left their national sphere 10 years earlier, because it was choked to death by the government.
(DIR) Post #A3PHrvUz7BcbrITnI8 by mrsaturday@shitposter.club
2021-01-19T20:47:05.280840Z
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@maxmustermann @thor Which is funny because imageboard posters tend to have a pretty strong pirate ethos, they just don't try to marry it to liberal social causes like the Pirate Parties do.
(DIR) Post #A3PI6ovTpmFJokyUEa by yk@distrotoot.com
2021-01-19T20:49:32Z
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@thor What does "being Europeans" mean? The US have their Big Idea they can love or hate together, the Constitution. We have an unclear jumble of half-hearted contracts, mandated by an anonymous elite of unelected civil servants.
(DIR) Post #A3PIC2yt0PUAr93mWe by thor@pl.thj.no
2021-01-19T20:50:42.837927Z
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@yk well, for example, when i went to Spain (i'm Norwegian), it felt... familiar in a way that the United States didn't. lots of little things. "this is still a place that feels a bit like home"
(DIR) Post #A3PIIRv3CPJ9wDJpAG by maxmustermann@shitposter.club
2021-01-19T20:51:52.539822Z
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@mrsaturday @thor The Pirate parties had been infiltrated by unsavory people from the get go. I fondly remember how Klaus "Faxe" Gerwald-Brunner went to a soyboy who has rejected them with a sac kbarrow, murdered him, put the body in the sack barrow and hauled it through half Berlin to his Apartment where he raped the body and became an hero.
(DIR) Post #A3PIRgt4uvCGy1nq8u by thor@pl.thj.no
2021-01-19T20:53:32.415504Z
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@maxmustermann @mrsaturday i don't know how we ended up in Pirate Party territory, but...i was once a member here in Norway and i tried to get them to understand that marketing, posters, social media presence was important, but...they were just a mix of nerds (who don't get this) and various fringe people who wanted to turn the Pirate Party into the platform for their weird ideas... so it was very hard.i left it because it seemed to have no future.
(DIR) Post #A3PIXE9EgMvTZT05Ro by 9pHpqtuYyu48GpbMRM.erm67@erm67.dynu.net
2021-01-19T20:54:05Z
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@thor More or less ..Now after brexit english could be dropped as an official language, it is official only in Ireland. I think the status of the english language in the EU is still undecided
(DIR) Post #A3PIdr1J4NnBrtS3eK by thor@pl.thj.no
2021-01-19T20:55:44.465179Z
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@erm67 whenever i socialise with euro people from other countries, we inevitably end up speaking English. most of us learned it in school and consider it a lingua franca, independently of UK membership. it would be counterproductive to drop it... but then again, much like the US federal government, Brussels is... clumsy.
(DIR) Post #A3PIdtZ3bryhl9G2XA by maxmustermann@shitposter.club
2021-01-19T20:55:45.317256Z
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@thor @mrsaturday We ended up here on the same road *checks map* that lead us to the CCC, tumblr SJW and Occupy Wallstreet. The fringe people were a huge Problem. They were one of the reasons why the party failed here.
(DIR) Post #A3PIo2autKCqf3xuG8 by ic3l9@shitposter.club
2021-01-19T20:56:58.154168Z
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@thor @piggo i think finland used to have some form of "mark" like germany and austria also had "kronen"
(DIR) Post #A3PIptEYfHeWD1OAsK by thor@pl.thj.no
2021-01-19T20:57:54.807739Z
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@ic3l9 @piggo Finland had mark, yes.
(DIR) Post #A3PItXynd4vVRslIKO by thor@pl.thj.no
2021-01-19T20:58:33.518712Z
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@ic3l9 @piggo at one point, far back, Norway had riksdaler (perhaps German Reichsdalen)which is, i think, etymologically related to "dollar"
(DIR) Post #A3PIvFuBngDpyHQ6rI by thor@pl.thj.no
2021-01-19T20:58:52.777768Z
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@ic3l9 @piggo dalen or thalen, thaler
(DIR) Post #A3PJsNeKePoL4iCD6u by yk@distrotoot.com
2021-01-19T21:09:15Z
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@thor That sounds great. I am a south European but I have been living in Sweden for the last 20 years. I still don't feel at home here, but I did feel at home right away when I visited a US red state.
(DIR) Post #A3QCA8PLS92oXb6Isa by 9pHpqtuYyu48GpbMRM.erm67@erm67.dynu.net
2021-01-20T06:56:09Z
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@thor Actually someone has to pay to translate everything in English, and we cannot pretend that Ireland alone pay the English translations. There should be a vote by all countries that authorizes it. Actually it could happen since choosing French, Spanish or Deutsch would face the same kind of opposition.
(DIR) Post #A3QCA9OJnRojahczuy by piggo@piggo.space
2021-01-20T07:17:47.852708Z
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@erm67 @thor have you seen the documents Brussels produces? That isn't English. A lot of the words have altered meaning, grammar is dead. I don't believe any native speaker even proofreads these
(DIR) Post #A3QCCkH7dMiyZ0V1YO by thor@pl.thj.no
2021-01-20T07:18:17.749304Z
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@erm67 but EU documents are full of weird English. certain words are misused because the words exist in other languages, but mean something else. others occur oddly often in EU English but nowhere else, such as "harmonise", whereas the more common phrasing would be "make consistent/compatible" or perhaps "unify". it's clear that many of these documents are written by people who are proficient in English, but aren't native speakers.
(DIR) Post #A3QCFmFAlss5XP27cG by thor@pl.thj.no
2021-01-20T07:18:52.201736Z
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@erm67 and yeah, @piggo just said the same thing
(DIR) Post #A3QCLheik4N92uoCtE by thor@pl.thj.no
2021-01-20T07:19:55.851245Z
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@erm67 @piggo some of these terms are now known in the EU to be bad English but they have become established, so they can't get rid of them, lol
(DIR) Post #A3QCbrAD9xL3ASEzRo by thor@pl.thj.no
2021-01-20T07:22:50.578491Z
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@erm67 @piggo if you've ever tried to read an EU document, only to feel very confused because you can't quite understand what they're actually talking about, it helps to learn all the broken English they use, because then it starts to make sense, lol