Giving Your Two Cents

moldboy

Oct 11 2005, 03:58 AM

I was wondering, and since this forum is an international thing, In North america we have a saying that goes "Giving my two cents" or something like that, it means having your say no matter how small in a conversaiton. I was wondering, what about places where there is not 1 cent coin?

Mithshark

Oct 11 2005, 06:45 AM

omg,... Lol this borders spam it fits in "DEEP THOUGHTS" ( a band liek thing) wait is this borderline spam too?!?!?!??

brainless

Oct 11 2005, 12:08 PM

In Germany it's "seinen Senf dazu geben" ("adding one's mustard") ... but I'm not sure where that comes from...

Ao)K-General

Oct 12 2005, 01:31 AM

Huh? What are you talking about? Your making no sense at all.

brandice

Oct 12 2005, 03:50 AM

it does make sense, and I think It's an interesting question. I suppose in different countries and languages there are different sayings for adding your little thoughts into a conversation.

Guevara

Oct 12 2005, 10:23 AM

Coin...every country has 1 coin,but the mention is euro ore ollar and other smilar words.

OpaQue

Oct 12 2005, 11:48 AM

Hmm.. Let me add my 2 cents, naah, take 5 cents. Ohh.. I think that will be too much. Let me think again.. Ok, 3 Cents. Thats perfect. LOL, Just kidding. I find this thread funny..

kitty

Oct 17 2005, 08:56 AM

In my country there is no "cents'...we say for the two cents,I mean for the thoughts we have something like that:

"Moje misljenje...","Moje reci...",etc..

Tyssen

Oct 17 2005, 10:48 AM

In Australia we did away with our one & two cent coins - lowest is five cents now so everything gets rounded up or down when you pay with cash - but the saying still has the same meaning here.

HoRuS

Oct 17 2005, 12:01 PM

lol here in Holland we also had cents, then the euro came and we had eurocents and now they banned all those so all I can add is a 5 cent coin

hmmm I feel I've been lifted

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mykokology

Nov 10 2005, 04:12 PM

here in the philippines we also use the 2 cents worth thing although we just got it from the states (english is our second language and most filipinos are fluent in it). We do not have an exact tranlslation or counterpart with that although sometimes e use the term "kuro kuro"..

Tyssen

Nov 6 2005, 10:48 PM

QUOTE(Compute @ Nov 5 2005, 04:48 PM)

And which country doesn't have a 1 cent? Don't they all?

Didn't read the thread properly, did ya?

QUOTE(Tyssen @ Oct 17 2005, 08:48 PM)

In Australia we did away with our one & two cent coins - lowest is five cents now so everything gets rounded up or down when you pay with cash - but the saying still has the same meaning here.

LoveAurora

Nov 6 2005, 09:16 PM

QUOTE(Compute @ Nov 5 2005, 07:48 AM)

They don't mean 2 cents as in Money I think it means just like your opinion no matter how small it or meaningless it is. Not 2 cents of your money.

I think actually it does originate back to money, more specifiacally to do with money in poker. But yes, today, that's more or less what the saying means.

chuya

Nov 5 2005, 10:16 AM

QUOTE(Nani Cheri @ Nov 4 2005, 12:33 PM)

In holland we had 2 Eurocent, exastly!!. But thank god they banned those stupid little cents. I like 50 cent better

: Go! Go! Go! shorty.. its you birthday!!

Just kidding.

You're extremely lucky, here in France we still have 2 cents and 1 cents. They're so annoying and hard to get rid of!

I don't think there is a French equivalent to giving one's "two cents" but we do have the saying "une blague à deux balles" which is an insult. It basically means, literally that the joke is worth "two Francs", that's it's stupid.

Compute

Nov 5 2005, 06:48 AM

How interesting how about if they don't have a 1 cent. They don't mean 2 cents as in Money I think it means just like your opinion no matter how small it or meaningless it is. Not 2 cents of your money.

And which country doesn't have a 1 cent? Don't they all?

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