• qyron
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    1 day ago

    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, with X amount of cents, then state the currency.

    Speech followed writing.

    • @[email protected]
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      71 day ago

      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

    • Dharma Curious (he/him)
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      11 day ago

      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

      • BritishJ
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        31 day ago

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