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Hmm, I'm a grammar pedant and that one has never bothered me except in formal prose (real journalism, marketing copy, books). It's spoken that way ("one-hundre
by AceyMan 4y ago
Hmm, I'm a grammar pedant and that one has never bothered me except in formal prose (real journalism, marketing copy, books).
It's spoken that way ("one-hundred dollars") so it's actually kind of intuitive to write it that way, even if it's technically 'wrong.'
- nirvgorilla 4y agoOh really? Then why don't we say QUESTION MARK or PERIOD verbally for each sentence of you think the $ literally means "dollars?"
- cld8483 4y ago[dead]
- fragmede 4y agobecause we have other clues for that. A question is denoted by a raise in tone at the end of the sentence. A period is denoted by a pause.
- nirvgorilla 4y ago[flagged]