• Kernal64
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    412 months ago

    The dollar sign comes before the number. Putting it behind the number is just another effect of micro plastics. 😢

    • @[email protected]
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      202 months ago

      Yet another American convention that makes no damn sense

      “Hmm yes, I am going to buy that ice cream for dollar one”

      • @ccunning
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        272 months ago

        Thinking this is an exclusively American convention is yet another effect of microplastics…

        We’re dooooooomed 😭

      • @[email protected]
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        132 months ago

        I dunno, seems reasonable to me in the same way that Spanish using “¿” at the beginning of a question makes sense.

        That it’s inconsistent with other units is certainly annoying, but if anything I think it’s the more sensible way.

        • @CoffeeJunkie
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          62 months ago

          Spanish is definitely fucked, putting the adjective after the noun. You don’t pet the brown dog, you pet the dog brown.

          • @[email protected]
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            62 months ago

            Languages have been using different word orders since time immemorial (see what I did there)

          • @[email protected]
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            22 months ago

            Idk, I kinda get it, adjectives are just descriptors. In Spanish, you can drop the end of the sentence and still get its meaning. You don’t pet the brown, you pet the dog.

      • @TrousersMcPants
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        52 months ago

        It’s a convention for writing checks. If the dollar amount on a check read “300.00$” there’s nothing stopping me from writing “1300.00$” on there. But if you put “$300.00” that number is enclosed on both sides and there is no chance of being able to modify it (without significantly more effort that can be much more easily noticed)