UHe found a tenner in my non-english book. I'm assuming they're referring to pre-Euro money. It says a paper note but I think it refers to a coin. 

In the UK book he finds 50p (according to a UK teachers website)

It had to take place after the advent of tv, so assuming 1955 $1 = $8.85 in today's money.

1964 when published $1 = $7.60.  

In 1955 a Snickers bar cost $0.05.  Hersey bars were also .05 cents into the 60s.

I need a time machine.

I can't believe you are all on Chapter 10, I thought we were on a break to get some work done?!! 

What happened to peeling back a corner of the wrapper and savouring each nibble, and making the sweetness last a whole month, eh? Eh? 

Pah! 

A tenner is a ten pound note. Good God, there's inflation for you!

We never joined the Euro Zone and now we are taking a referendum on a complete Brexit, so no euros for Charlie.

In the original book (pre-decimalisation) it was a shiny half-crown that Charlie found, I think, which was worth two shillings and sixpence.  A Wonka Whipple-Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delight bar was then sixpence. 

If you don't know all this by heart, then I am disappointed in you all.

22 minutes ago, blessalessi said:

A tenner is a ten pound note. Good God, there's inflation for you!

We never joined the Euro Zone and now we are taking a referendum on a complete Brexit, so no euros for Charlie.

In the original book (pre-decimalisation) it was a shiny half-crown that Charlie found, I think, which was worth two shillings and sixpence.  A Wonka Whipple-Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delight bar was then sixpence. 

If you don't know all this by heart, then I am disappointed in you all.

Half a crown is what Scrooge gave the boy to wake up the butcher and bring the turkey as big as him.

any points for knowing that?

25 minutes ago, blessalessi said:

A tenner is a ten pound note. Good God, there's inflation for you!

no, that's bad translating for you (tenner was the closest I could come up with) I discussed it with my bf once he woke up and he said it was the equivalent to 5 Euros (back when the Euro came out).

Sometimes reading translations suck. They changed a lot of the names in my Charlie book. It's a bit sad. They did sort of keep the rhyming in the Oompa Loompa's songs though.

In the post-decimalisation UK book, Charlie found a 50p coin instead, which was the effective replacement of the old ten shilling note.  To this day, my Dad refers to a 50p coin as being "ten bob" (bob=slang for shilling).

Could that be what you are getting in your translation?

34 minutes ago, HerNameIsBuffy said:

Half a crown is what Scrooge gave the boy to wake up the butcher and bring the turkey as big as him.

any points for knowing that?

It depends whether you are referring to the film or book, of course!

#onlythebookisreal

40 minutes ago, OnceUponATime said:

no, that's bad translating for you (tenner was the closest I could come up with) I discussed it with my bf once he woke up and he said it was the equivalent to 5 Euros (back when the Euro came out).

Sometimes reading translations suck. They changed a lot of the names in my Charlie book. It's a bit sad. They did sort of keep the rhyming in the Oompa Loompa's songs though.

What are the names in yours?

18 minutes ago, blessalessi said:

In the post-decimalisation UK book, Charlie found a 50p coin instead, which was the effective replacement of the old ten shilling note.  To this day, my Dad refers to a 50p coin as being "ten bob" (bob=slang for shilling).

Could that be what you are getting in your translation?

It depends whether you are referring to the film or book, of course!

#onlythebookisreal

This is like school!  I'm gonna say book and hope that the movie was true to the book with that since I'm totally getting it from the movie.

Don't make me go back and read Dickens!

(When I read the book for the first time, I'll let you know..... )

12 minutes ago, HerNameIsBuffy said:

What are the names in yours?

Sjakie Stevens (real name Jacques)- Charlie

Parents of Mr Stevens - Opa Jakob and Opoe Jakoba

Parents of Mrs Stevens - grootvader Willem and grootmoeder Willemina

The other kids:

Caspar Slock

Veruca Peper

Violet Beauderest

Joris Teevee

oh and Willie Wonka

29 minutes ago, blessalessi said:

Could that be what you are getting in your translation?

it says "tientje" which would be 10 gulden and would have looked something like:

To be honest, I don't think I could spot money like that sticking out of the snow, or wherever it was, especially if I was starving.

Yeah, it needed to be a shiny coin! 

Caspar Slock is a winning name, though! 

6 minutes ago, blessalessi said:

Yeah, it needed to be a shiny coin! 

Next winters experiment - what is easier to find in the snow: coins or paper money.

Them turning Salt into Peper (Pepper) has really really got me wound up. No, just NO. You don't do that. Salt is not pepper, salt and pepper might go together but they are not interchangeable like that! Stuff like that is why I often can't stand seeing tv/movie adaptations. (that and the fact that they never do justice to my imagination).

I had an English teacher when I was 16 made us watch all the books/plays/short stories that we were meant to read. I had to pester her for a written copy each time which she didn't really approve of. Then we had to over-analyze everything (omg he wore red, he's either in love or angry), I was glad when I no longer had her as a teacher.

Does Peper work better for the parts that rhyme, maybe? 

My own bugbear is when names are changed when a book crosses the Atlantic between two English speaking countries! Why would you?

And I think the currency should have been left as it was for all time.  Shillings and sixpences FTW!

1 minute ago, blessalessi said:

Does Peper work better for the parts that rhyme, maybe? 

No. The only time Peper is in the rhyme is at the start:

Veruca Peper, die kleine kat,
Verdween zojuist in 't vuilnisgat

If they needed an extra syllable for flow they could have gone for "Veruca Zout, die piepkleine kat". I read the books aloud to my bf, and I make him sing the songs to me because I can't get a nice rhythm reading them. 

Now I really want to compare the songs. Are the songs in the films true to the book?

Some parts of some of them.