• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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    7 months ago

    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.

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      7 months ago

      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$.

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      7 months 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.