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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I understand the joke and I agree with the sentiment, but it drives me fucking insane when people put the dollar symbol after the dollar amount.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

IMO it is the right way to do it (I know it isn't in the US) You already do it for measurement symbols so why is it before when money is involved

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Do you say "it costs five dollars" or "it costs dollar five"? Write as you speak, please.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do you write 4$ and 50¢?

Or do you write $4.50

And if you write $4.50 do you say "dollars four period fifty"?

That's not nearly the justification that you think it is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I write 5 zł (5 zlotys, 5 PLN) or 5€ (5 euros, 5 EUR) because in Europe we don't unnecesarily invert the currency symbol compared to what we speak. The following system, which I found on Wikipedia, would make the most sense:

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 250.

That'd be perfectly consistent with what we speak and solve the problem of fractional currency notation as well.