Slang for RL money (RP money too if you want)
Too long/ don't want to read version: What currency do you you use, and what slang if any do you use?
The rub:
So I am feeling a bit under the weather. So I'm only on site replying to some Rmails and taking it easy, but I wanted to ask a rather innocuous question (a bit random as well). How often do you (or in games you play if you want to answer it that way) use accepted main stream slang for the main unit of currency.
I used the dollar, and for the most part I get fussy to have to use any other word. Bucks is the only slang I thing of, and tolerate others using that term. I do use grand, large, or big ones though; but that's seldom an amount I speak of, so by that nature I seldom use it.
Now, of any English speaking media, I think I dive most headlong into British media. Numerphile (and Brady's other channels to a lesser extent(, some comics like Richard Ayoade, a bunch of actors; I couldn't name them all.
As an aside, a complete unforgivable tengent, I LOVE German industrial music, some J-pop, and absolutely love Compass with Merethe Soltvedt. So I spend hours each day listening to words in non-english speech/singing. *back on track*
I notice a LOT of british celebrities use Quid, almost exclusively. I really only hear them say Pound about 8% of the time.
So my question is twofold.
What is the "official" currency you use IRL (or in a game you're well versed and deep into) and what slang (if any) do you use most comfortably.?
In my decades in exalted and D&D, I used "notes" as most characters who were wealthy (and most were) they wouldn't carry actual dinars, and instead would have Guild bank notes. This is sort of a nebulous slang for D&D "wheatsheaf/gold" depending what is "official" in your D&D games. The "official" is Wheatsheef (sp?) but that would only come up in Dyvers when our rogue would be getting down to brass tacks of getting us paid. It was otherwise gold, which is basically the defacto slang, like butt or such is for buttocks.
Mostly in day to day talk of money I use the word dollar. I even actively refuse to interract with cents, so will just round up (as any one should pragmatically) even if people I'm talking to get cause on the trees and miss the forest. I also tend to be formal, even in casual chatting, so stick to the explicit "official" currency of the states (where I do almost all my commerce). When I have seen a grand, I'll call it that though. In my past years as a barely adult petty criminal, I would also use big ones or large depending on the audience. Not that I ever committed felony, but with accrued misdemeanors (I was never convicted of and have pass statute of limitations on) I would trade out when I was nearing that in street value, even though I'd never se nearly that much from a fence. On that note, I discontinued that lifestyle of crime nearly two decades ago, and have been happy to struggle honestly, rather than see that amount, and all the strings attached.
So thank you for reading my indulgent and rambling post.
What currency do you you use, and what slang if any do you use?
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