• full_on_rapist
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    1 year ago

    I understand the joke and I agree with the sentiment, but it drives me fucking insane when people put the dollar symbol after the dollar amount.

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      1 year ago

      IMO it is the right way to do it (I know it isn’t in the US) You already do it for measurement symbols so why is it before when money is involved

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          1 year ago

          It depends on the language. Here in Canada for example the sign goes in front if it’s written in English, and behind when written in French. Also, I have only ever seen the euro sign be behind the value.

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      1 year ago

      Do you say “it costs five dollars” or “it costs dollar five”? Write as you speak, please.

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        1 year ago

        Do you write 4$ and 50¢?

        Or do you write $4.50

        And if you write $4.50 do you say “dollars four period fifty”?

        That’s not nearly the justification that you think it is.

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          1 year ago

          Do you write 4$ or $4 if you don’t have cents? I really don’t know how you do it in US

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          I write 5 zł (5 zlotys, 5 PLN) or 5€ (5 euros, 5 EUR) because in Europe we don’t unnecesarily invert the currency symbol compared to what we speak. The following system, which I found on Wikipedia, would make the most sense:

          Exceptionally, the symbol for the Cape Verdean escudo (like the Portuguese escudo, to which it was formerly pegged) is placed in the decimal separator position, as in 2Image50.

          That’d be perfectly consistent with what we speak and solve the problem of fractional currency notation as well.