French term
Translation for Industry and Business
Native in: English (Variant: UK)
Works in: French to English, Swedish to English
plaque
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Nikki Scott-Despaigne
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Psychologist, Court-certified legal
Native in: English 
Works in: French to English
Lost in conversion
They are not easy to translate.
You find young people saying "balle" for euro: tu peux me filer 5 balles = can you gimme 5 euros?
But when you get to the "plaque", which was 10 000 francs, a thousand quid when I first lived in France when I was 19, a long time ago!
http://lightman.typepad.com/sebastienpissavy/2006/07/leuro_r...
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Note added at 36 mins (2016-12-08 12:17:11 GMT)
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Someone has actually taken the trouble to do the maths, which gives you an idea of the uncomfortable conversion for the slang!
http://ptutoy.over-blog.net/article-un-patron-vaut-il-une-pl...
"Le 1er janvier 1960, le nouveau franc français remplaça l'ancien franc. Dès 1963, l'expression « nouveau franc » laissa la place à « franc ». Deux (nouveaux) francs équivalaient à deux cents (anciens) francs ; exemple : un produit à 272 (anciens) francs revenait à 2,72 (nouveaux) francs, soit 2 francs et 72 centimes. Depuis le 17 février 2002, l'euro remplace le franc français. Un euro équivaut à 6,55957 francs français.
Des termes populaires désignaient ainsi le franc :
- 1 balle = 1 franc (0,15 euro) ; 100 balles = 100 francs (15,24 euros),
- 1 sac = 10 francs (1,52 euros) ; 10 sacs = 100 francs (15,24 euros),
- 1 brique ou 1 bâton ou 1 plaque = 10.000 francs (1.524,49 euros)."
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Note added at 38 mins (2016-12-08 12:18:31 GMT)
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28 x 1.524,49 = 42.685,72 euros!
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Note added at 43 mins (2016-12-08 12:23:58 GMT)
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The answer depends entirely on how it is used with reference to euros. Calculations are fun but futile here of course!
I'm not certain that there is a usage which enables "une plaque" in francs (10K) to be transposed into 10 thousand euros. It may be the case. It's slang so depends on usage.
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Note added at 46 mins (2016-12-08 12:26:53 GMT)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GbsR8DJOnk
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ph-b (X)
: esp with your last comment but it seems to me (from what I hear) that when it comes to slang, people don't worry about the difference in value between euro and francs, i.e. 1 euro= 1 franc. If only...
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Tony M
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Discussion
http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/032615/what-differen...
I'll see if I can come up with anything sound as to how it's used today. But I do hear people using "une plaque" and "une brique" to mean 1 thousand, but that's not proof enough!