• Midnight Wolf
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    106 months ago

    Boss: locks you in the building

    Boss: you live here now. I expect 3x productivity for a $0.50 cent raise with a maximum daily rate of quiet mumbling. Problem solved!

    • @SpaceNoodle
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      56 months ago

      How much is half a dollar cents in USD?

      • Midnight Wolf
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        6 months ago

        (I wrote that when groggy, but my thinking was that it’s supposed to be read aloud/verbally, so you’d ignore the $ and say the cents. My brain was still asleep.)

        About $3.50

        E: also why do we say “three dollars and fifty cents” when it’s clearly “dollar three [and] fifty [cents]”. Language weird, return to grunts.

        • @SpaceNoodle
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          26 months ago

          Because it’s translation, not transliteration.

        • @edgemaster72
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          76 months ago

          I think their point is that you would already read $0.50 as 50 cents, so adding the word cent to that makes it redundant.