[Foundation-l] currency POV

[Robin Shannon]

At the risk of flaming race riots, this intrigues me. What do you mean
they are confused by canadian $s. As in they do not know the exchange
rate? And do all canadian merchants accept US$, or all merchants near
the border? Either way that seems very strange (then again as an
Australian land borders seem very strange)

if this is getting too offtopic, then you can reply to me personaly.

paz y amor,
-[[User:The bellman]]

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 10:36:45 -0800, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> It's not a matter of NPOV at all.  It's a matter of avoiding
> ambiguities.  Canadians are far more experienced at recognizing which $
> is intended by the context than people in the US who get very confused
> when any curency than their own is mentioned.  It's quite common for US
> merchants, even ones near the border, to refuse Canadian currency
> because they don't understand it.  A Canadian merchant will except the
> US currency, and have some idea about what to do with exchange rates.
> 
> This leaves Canadians bemused, and contributes much to putting our
> streotypes about confused Americans on a solid footing.
> 
> Ec

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