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Enough Musk Spam

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Why is everyone putting $ at the end now?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I’ve seen it this way for folks that are from Europe.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It's the French way to do it, not sure about the others.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

Seems to be a pretty common thing all around Europe. It's how we use € here in the Nordics too

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Dutch spell euro in front of amount, but say amount in front of euro.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I do, they're leftover from when I was last over there. There's maybe 600$ in a drawer somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

In Swedish we write something like 10 SEK or 10:- (the dash is a substitute when there's no fraction of a Krona, otherwise it would be some like 10:50 (the latter part, "öre", typically written in smaller letters) or 10,50 kr)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (3 children)

You don’t say dollars 1.5 billion, or pesos 1.5 billion, or yuan 1.5 billion.

It actually makes more sense linguistically for it to follow than come before the amount.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is why I always find it a joy to use the % sign, it just makes sense how you read 10% as ten percent.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

There should be a petition for it to be written %10 in the US.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It’s funny that you listed pesos, because Spanish adds ¿ before questions, sort of like an opening quotation mark. So the reader knows it’s a question right at the beginning, instead of getting all the way to the end of the sentence. I’d argue that adding the currency symbol before the number informs the reader that the following number will be a currency amount. Potentially handy when you’re dealing with multiple kinds of numbers at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I would argue that for that to make a lick of sense we would also be saying cows 100k, sheep 1.2m.

So not handy at all when it’s the only outlier.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not sure why something has to extrapolate to every context you can think of in order to make a lick of sense, especially when talking about language and writing systems, which almost always have exceptions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Maybe that’s the problem, there should be a rhyme or reason so it avoids confusion.

It’s weird people are advocating for random arbitrary rules instead of pushing for something cohesive and makes sense….

[–] [email protected] -4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Except putting it in front let's you understand what the number is that you're reading before you read it. It's not 1.5B people. It's not 1.5B paper airplanes. You know it's dollars being discussed as you read the number. For understanding, I'm reasonably confident it makes more sense to out it in front.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

If it makes more sense to put the unit before the number, then couldn't one argue we should be writing people1.5B or airplanes1.5B? That way we know what it is before we read the number.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Come up with a new symbol character for each of those and and I'll do just that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Sure. Some languages do that. It's totally viable. Our language doesn't work that way though so you won't see it, outside of money.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Because it's in dollars, maybe?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

In English its standard to write it as $1.5B. You could be from Quebec or Europe? But then I might expect 1,5B$. Shrug.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

European. Noggie, to be specific. I've given up on remembering which to use as decimal point when typing english, but context usually makes it clear.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, but I heard somewhere recently that it's (mildly) derogatory. I guess that's our N-word. It's only offensive if you say it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It's supposed to go before the number, not after. It should have been written $1.5B. The British do the same thing with the pound.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago

he has won dollar 1.5 Billion?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago

Because the reason why we did it the other way, with the $ in the front was because of checks since checks have gone out of fashion for nearly 20 years now. It makes sense to put the $ sign to the back since you say fifty dollars.