Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> > >In danish some measures do not have a plural, like meter and liter
> > >I think this is the rule the eurocats were thinking of.
> >
> > The Danes may do whatever they like to form plurals in their own
> > language. The fact is that the eurocats have no jurisdiction over
> > natural language. The other fact is that the French, Spanish, and
> > Portuguese are all using "euros" with an -s.
>
> I think this particular "rule" is going be ignored with glee all
> around Europe. FWIW, also in Finnish saying that the plural of "euro"
> would be "euro", is absurd.
It *would* be absurd, but EU's official recommendation for Finnish is to
decline "euro" as usual. I think that, historically, the Finns were the
first ones to point out the silliness of the original idea of making the
name invariable in all languages.
_ Marco
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