• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    Km100? Mb/s100? But $100 is suddenly ok? Americans clearly do it wrong.
    And you say “100 Dollars” and not “Dollars 100”, right?
    Not like we’re better though; germans say numbers wrong.

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      3 days ago

      I didn’t say it was ok; just the way we do it in Canada as well as the States. It absolutely makes no sense lol. I’m pretty sure a lot of growing up make the “mistake” of writing 100$.

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      3 days ago

      This is to be a language thing. In the US, Australia, Canada, and the UK, we write £20, $20, and €20 (and 50c, 50¢, 50p if using coinage). In Quebec, Canada, the currency symbol goes at the end, because French is the provincial language.

      In English, 20$ is wrong. In French, $20 is wrong. Use the right system for your language.

    • Magnum, P.I.@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I know as a metric enthusiast you HAVE TO get offended the second something imperial is mentioned. Whatever it doesn’t matter if you like it or not, if the story would not be fake and gay, he would have written $Value and not Value$