Re: Nativized loanwords vs. code switching?

Nikolaj <nikolaj.korbar@xxxxxx> wrote:
PaulJK pravi:

They should have called it a Tolar or Taler. :-)
It would be nice after centuries of hitching around the world
that word coming back home to Central Europe where it
was coined :-)


How would it be called in English then, if not "dollar"? :-)

pjk

He, he that would be nice. Then Slovenia would change its currency from
Tolar to another Tolar ;)

BTW: "au" and "eu" don't exist in Slovenian. Slovenian politicians
accepted a compromise when writing the name "euro" - the prefix "eur"
should be used and declined according to slovenian rules for declension.
But if I check with Google, it seems that such use is less frequent:
for instance, Google gives 605.000 hits for "eurov" and 4.210.000 hits
for "evrov". But I suppose it is strictly used in the official documents
in Slovene.

That compromise made linguists quite angry. Hopefully, some other
country (Litva, Hungary, Czech Republic, ...) will achieve that an
alternative spelling "evr-" can also be used in national documents and
also that is appears on the banknotes and coins.

IIRC Latvia already uses eir-, _their_ problem was whether to use
eira or eiro (one was widespread, one was linguistically correct).
However, they are not going to adopt the e[ui]r[ao] anytime soon,
so the problem is postponed until they mint their own coins.

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