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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] Magnum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I know as a matric 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 $Value and not Value$

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours 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.

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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$.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 23 hours ago

In Europe they write 100,59€ and to me, that looks odd.