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Kanil

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Re: Name That Currency!
« Reply #15 on: September 07, 2008, 04:42:32 pm »
Behold, the mighty dwarfbucks!
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Re: Name That Currency!
« Reply #16 on: September 07, 2008, 05:20:26 pm »
I'm partial to turtles myself.  ;)
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« Reply #17 on: September 07, 2008, 05:23:52 pm »
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« Reply #18 on: September 08, 2008, 04:56:38 am »
Well I was interested in this, so I turned to the source of all knowledge: Google.  Guess what I got?

http://www.bay12games.com/cgi-local/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=11&t=002491

a link to an earlier post from this year.

I'm voting that we call it ☼.
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« Reply #19 on: September 08, 2008, 05:00:56 am »
Quote from: Duke 2.0 on September 07, 2008, 05:23:52 pm
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« Reply #20 on: September 08, 2008, 06:15:34 am »
Dwarfbux rolls off the tongue better.

Hmmm ... Dwarf credits?  Dwedits?

Dwarf liri. 
Dwarf marks. - Dwarfmarks.  I like this one.
Dwarfos?  (as in dwarven euros)
Dwarf pounds, dwarf sterling, dwarf yen.

Dwarven ordinary shares (for calculating the Net Fortress Value, of course)

Dwarven legendaries.

Shiny pebbles?  Beer barrel corks?  vermin carapaces?  Gravel?
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« Reply #21 on: September 08, 2008, 06:32:21 am »
I like to call them metal scraps (silver scraps, gold scraps, or just scraps for the sake of simplicity).

Quote from: Kagus on September 08, 2008, 05:00:56 am
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« Reply #22 on: September 08, 2008, 06:39:59 am »
Hmmm... scraps. I like the sound of that. The artifact costs 42000 scraps. It sounds nice.
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Re: Name That Currency!
« Reply #23 on: September 08, 2008, 07:01:37 am »
Quote from: Paul on September 07, 2008, 11:50:29 am
How about Limul. (from Toady's dwarven language, word for gold, same spelling is plural for golds).

I was using this for Evilcheerio's Tholfeb succession game.  :)
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« Reply #24 on: September 08, 2008, 08:57:50 am »
I'm fond of 'turtles', myself, since we eat so many and I have thousands of shells in the dump. ;D
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« Reply #25 on: September 08, 2008, 09:07:09 am »
If you want it to sound natural you have to take the word "Dwarf" out of it.  I'd say something like Fortbucks, or Ching.  IF that's a slur to somebody, I'm really sorry, I don't think it is, and yet it kinda sounds like it could be.
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« Reply #26 on: September 08, 2008, 10:01:34 am »
You're thinking of "chink", which is apparently a slur against people of the Chinese persuasion.  So far as I know, "ching" has no negative connotations.

I'd say "Pling" sounds better than "Ching", personally (although "pla-pling" doesn't have the same ring to it as "cha-ching").  I'd rather use "Crowns" than plings, however.

It's also nice to have something that has a pleasant abbreviated form.  "Turtles" can be represented as "Trts.", as in "10Trts. for a felsite mug".  Crowns look more like "Corns" when abbreviated to Crns., but could work as just Cs.

Gems are also represented by that starburst, if I'm not mistaken.  10000 Gs for that artifact granite mug, perhaps?
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« Reply #27 on: September 08, 2008, 10:13:23 am »
Quote from: duro on September 08, 2008, 06:32:21 am
I like to call them metal scraps (silver scraps, gold scraps, or just scraps for the sake of simplicity).

Ooo, I like scraps too.

Quote from: tigrex on September 08, 2008, 06:15:34 am

Dwarfos?  (as in dwarven euros)


No offense but Euros is about the stupidest name ever for a currency (this coming form a country where we have somthing called a toonie).  Dwarfo's isn't so bad for some reason... really sounds more like a cereal though.  Maybe it's not bad because it sounds kinda tasty.
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« Reply #28 on: September 08, 2008, 10:42:19 am »
You know, we could just leave off all names; if I say the adamentine sword created in the Skyseal bloodline game was worth 1.4 million, everyone knows what I'm talking about.
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Re: Name That Currency!
« Reply #29 on: September 08, 2008, 11:13:08 am »
I just call them coins.  ;D
However what about "Denarius/Denarii"? Ancient and sounds cool!  ;)
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