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I know this is __so___ off topic, but the $ goes in front of the value for USD. It should be $500. Again, again, I know read the room, there's a tragic war goin
by HPMOR 2y ago
I know this is __so___ off topic, but the $ goes in front of the value for USD. It should be $500. Again, again, I know read the room, there's a tragic war going on, and the US is becoming complicit in the tragedy. But if we don't have time to be pedantic about monetary symbols then what good is the freedom we still possess.
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- Suppafly 2y agoPeople are downvoting this, but I'm always suspicious of comments online that imply they are from the US but mess up simple details that no native US user would mess up.
- dmos62 2y agoIf you're saying that someone is lying, you should be more upfront. Who do you think it is?
- kelnos 2y agoI dunno, a friend of mine does this, and she's a naive born American (and so are her parents). English is her only language. She knows it's "wrong", but just likes it better.
- BobaFloutist 2y agoFrankly, with both percents and dollars, we say "One-hundred dollars/percent," so putting the symbol at the front is counterintuitive to how we speak.
- Suppafly 2y agoThere is always an exception that proves the rule.
- ponector 2y agoSpecial for you: one drone costs as little as 500€. But you can donate even few dollars, everything counts. That is the power of crowdfunding. That guy by the link, Sternenko, supplied Ukrainian forces with 100 000 drones in 2024.
- gman83 2y agoWhere did they imply they were from the US? And why would that be relevant here?
- Mawr 2y agoReally, it's surprising that someone used dollars to convey the value of something? On a western, US-focused, English-speaking forum?
- 8note 2y agoin canadian french, its 500$ and within canada its fine to have either/or. you'll see it written based on what the writer's first language is
- HPMOR 2y agoInteresting. However, most of the world follows US-GAAP, so the global de-facto is $, for USD, to go in front of the numeric value. I learned that from this __very__ good introduction to understanding financing instruments called "Pricing Money" https://www.jdawiseman.com/books/pricing-money/Pricing_Money_JDAWiseman.html https://www.jdawiseman.com/books/pricing-money/Pricing_Money...
- ropejumper 2y agoMany americans put the euro sign before the numerical value even though most (afaik all) countries that use the euro put it after. This is such a weird thing to get bothered by.
- beojan 2y agoThe Eurostat style guide puts the Euro sign in front of the numbers for English text: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Tutorial:Symbols_and_abbreviations https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php... I think the general rule is that in English the currency symbol for the primary currency goes in front of the number, while the symbol for a subunit (pence, cents, etc) goes after the number.