Don't lowball me, man!
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In spoken language that makes sense to me, but in written materials I find it more helpful to know what unit I should be framing the numeric value in first. Dunno why - maybe it's just what I'm used to, and I could adapt relatively easily if I was forced to.
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But is that true for other units, too? Like miles or kilometers or kilograms or whatever you use
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There was an effort to approach spoken and writen speech.
Before the introduction of the Euro in my country we would speak and write XXXX$XX, meaning X amount, then declare the currency, followed by X of cents.
Nowadays we just state X,X€. So X amount of Euros, with X amount of cents, then state the currency.
Speech followed writing.
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Just like commas.
Let's eat out Grandma!
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Yes, actually. I frequently read a number, then the unit, then re-read the number. Or I read the unit, then the number, skipping around a bit.
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The actual standard for English language (as well as Irish, Maltese and Dutch) is € first: https://style-guide.europa.eu/en/content/-/isg/topic?identifier=7.3.3-rules-for-expressing-monetary-units
For all other languages it's value first.
Luckily no one remembered to put it in the middle yet, which I assume is only because 50€10 looks cursed.
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I'm going to risk it is tied to the previous standard and has faced resistance to fade.
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I put one here: $
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Yeah, that's actually a very good point. Guess I could probably adapt more easily than I was imagining.
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X,X€? So would that be "twenty, fifteen cents euros?"
In the us, we say "twenty dollars and fifteen cents", and write it as $20.15 which seems like it's the same as your old system. X$.xx in speech
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By putting the dollar sign first on checks it prevents someone from changing 100$ into 1100$
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We still say "15 Euro 20" while writing "15,20€" and neither has ever changed, I think. My childhood memories of DM aren't that sharp
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Where is ISO when we need it..
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I had to write a check a few months ago, it was like divining an ancient language.
It cleared through, so I guess I got it right.
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You could do the same if the dollar sign is on the other side though.
$100
$1000
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But that's why you put the "and no cents ~~~~~~~~" at the end
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I personally don't have it that bad but I've similar thoughts about written units. I must admit I do prefer everything working the same and as such think the dollar sign in front is extremely cursed.
I also hate how few people use the ISO 8601 date standard which is super intuitive and machine friendly. And no matter what there is no excuse for the mm.dd.yyyy format.
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aren't they supposed to look at the fully written out
"One hundred dollars 0/100" part of the check. Either way someone can slip in a 1 or a zero somewhere in the paper.
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Luckily no one remembered to put it in the middle yet, which I assume is only because 50€10 looks cursed.
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 2$50.
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l10n is a bitch. The exceptions are almost as bad as timezones...
The swiss use ' as a separator. So they would write 900'000 which upside down would look like 000,006 so the confusion could continue
