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[-] Kernal64@sh.itjust.works 45 points 5 months ago

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

[-] itslilith 30 points 5 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@lemmy.world 31 points 5 months ago

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

We’re dooooooomed 😭

[-] itslilith 8 points 5 months ago

Sorry, too hungry, I ated them all 😞

I meant American and anglophone, don't think I'll forgive the British for that

[-] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 6 points 5 months ago

It's definitely not an EU thing. And the rest of the world don't count, especially New Zealand.

[-] HeavenlySpoon@ttrpg.network 8 points 5 months ago
[-] lone_faerie 3 points 5 months ago

Whoever decided to use the comma as the decimal point definitely consumed too much micro plastic.

[-] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago

NZ doesn't even show on like half of the maps.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 13 points 5 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@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

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

[-] xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago

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

[-] lone_faerie 2 points 5 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.

[-] zarathustrad@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

This dog is black, not.

[-] TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world 7 points 5 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)

[-] itslilith 5 points 5 months ago

Do it like $1300.00$ to fuck with LaTeX/Markdown renderers

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