Are those Euros?

Alicia here. We picked ourselves up an 11-dirham version of Monopoly at Lulu's the other day after a 15-year hiatus thinking that surely there would be some kind of 'reminder' about the rules included in the box. We were sorely mistaken! Thank God for the internet.

It also turns out that a $3 version of Monopoly includes a cereal-box quality cardboard game surface and barely enough paper money for two people to make change after landing on Community Chest and drawing a $15 school fees card. Nonetheless, with plenty of determination and gin, one can have a great time with this game.

Just out of curiosity, is that in fact a $15 school fees card, or a 15-Euro school fees card? Or is it 15 British Pounds? The game includes Arabic translations for everything from "Go to Jail" to "Trafalgar Square", but the currency used is clearly not intended to be a dirham or a riyal or a gold bullion. I am absolutely fascinated thinking about some regional product developers at Parker Brothers sitting around in a board room somewhere making these kinds of decisions.

In related news, the new librarian at work taught me some Afrikaans today: My Name Is translates to May Nom Es (spelling uncertain), and with a few more lessons, I'll be well on my to complete and utter confusion with Spanish, Arabic, Malayalam, and Hindi and will subsequently suffer a complete mento-linguistic purge of all the English I once knew.