On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 02:17:41 +0300, "gogu"
wrote:

? "Padraic Brown" ?????? ??? ??????
.. .
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005 18:12:07 +0300, "gogu"
wrote:


My experience from a couple of threads here and from articles is
different;
Americans dislike the dollar coin but they use it because they can't
refuse
it.

A "couple of threads" indeed have featured disgruntled Americans who
drag out the same old arguments (coins are "too heavy", "mistaken for
a quarter", etc).

Same here.
Thank you for proving my point that no only Europeans but also many
Americans are not accustomed with the dollar coin. :-)

Note that I didn't say anything about not being "accustomed to" the
dollar coin. The arguments are always red herrings that rarely address
the matter of familiarity.

The vast majority of posts and threads regarding the
use of dollar coins in the US have been positive or at least neutral.

I remember reading on-line that the majority of the Americans are negative
to the dollar coins and that's why the US Mint did a huge campaign to make
people "trust" the dollar coin and start using it.
Am I wrong ?

Obviously. I don't know what your source was, so really can't comment.
Honestly, I think the Mint went for the ad campaigns so that they
could sell more products, and thus rake in more money. Has nothing to
do with getting Americans to use a dollar coin. If they want us to use
dollar coins, they'll do what they were afraid to do in 1979.

The point is not that the euro note will help me the way you say, it will
just make people "feel" better the value of the money !

??? OK, whatever!

I am just reporting to you what people opposing the euro are saying.
And the truth is that we have somehow lost the notion of the value with the
euro: most of us are ashamed to leave a euro coin for a tip in a restaurant
but if we realize this is 340,75 drachmas -more than we let before euro-
then you can understand my above quote. A paper euro would make the 1 euro
"feel" more valuable.

Rather than carp about coin or paper euros, think about how many euros
you earn in a day. Compare that with how many drachmas you earned in a
day.

In the end, I think you'd just end up confused by the paper euro/coin
euro and the value of each.

But here we are not talking about me and you, we are talking about entire
countries, with many older persons...

They'll get used to it, too.

Sure they'll get used, maybe after they die ;-)

I think you underestimate them.

Padraic.

la cieurgeourea provoer mal trasfu
ast meiyoer ke 'l andrext ben trasfu.