Don't lowball me, man!

qyron

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.

qyron

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.

Dharma Curious (he/him)

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.

From Wikipedia

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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

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That's the text portion, not the numeric portion.

BritishJ

You've read it backwards. Its $15.20
Or to be exact 15.20€. So its spoken 15 Euros, 20.