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• DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Welcome to Europa were we do exactly that, as the placement of the currency symbol is a locale thing not a universal.

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  • Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah I know, it drives me crazy.

    It’s also annoying when Europeans swap the comma and decimal on currency amounts too, especially given that you don’t do that when writing sentences. Drives me crazy seeing an amount written out like 2.999,95€! Where are your manners!?

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    • atro_city@fedia.io ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      USAian defaultism is always hilarious

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      • Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I can’t help that I was born here. FWIW I’m not a blind patriot, I just have autism.

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      • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It’s not just Americans that use the comma as a spacer and a period for a decimal

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      • starik@lemmy.today ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Get off our internet if you don’t like it

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    • Demdaru@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Where I live we…just use comma. So 2999,95. No reason to add useless separators in the middle, and if we do for clarity sake, we use space (2 999,95).

      This is gonna irk you further, isn’t it…? xD

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      • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Separators aren’t useless; they help greatly in reading large numbers.

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      • blackbeans@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Wish everyone just followed the ISO norm. It dictates that you can either use a period or a comma as decimal separator. And for the thousands separator don’t use it, or use a space.

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      • Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        We use, if needed, apostrophes or upticks. 2’999,95. No danger of messing up between . and , that way.

        Also let’s just wait until that person learns that not every country separates into blocks of 3 and how many options of mixing and matching there are in use.

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      • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Space is what ISO recommends using.

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    • expr@programming.dev ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      “It’s so infuriating when people communicate in ways I’m not used to!”

      Just sounds really dumb and backwards.

      According to ISO 80000-1, the decimal separator can either be a period or a comma, and no preference is given to either. Many American software systems support both (including the software I work on). It’s really quite normal and mundane.

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    • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      manners? Where is your freedom, as you took that notation (0,000,00) from your british overlords.

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      • Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Well like I said to the other person, it’s not a “I think the US is superior” thing; very much the opposite. I simply have autism. (ADHD too but that’s not relevant here.)

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    • syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      People who deviate from the rule that units go after the number drive me batty.

      Like what, is the US equivalent of X €/kWh written $ X / kWh or something??? Absolutely disgusting

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    • Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Wait until they discovers that were i live we use those:

      • 2.000.000,34
      • 2’000’000,34
      • 2 000 000,34

      And that what you use depends on who your teacher was XD

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  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sure, but that doesn’t stop the localities that put it after from being totally wrong and stupid.

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    • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      but you say “its 15 US Dollar”, and not “its US Dollar 15”?

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      • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Speaking things and reading things aren’t 1 to 1 the same.

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• Saapas@piefed.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  To me putting it first feels funny. Euro 100, instead of 100 euros. While writing it you need to remember to put the symbol before writing the amount. Funny thing

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• yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I dont know why that annoys me. It does annoy me but it shouldn’t because at least it has a logic to it.

  £2 Is spoken “two pounds” not “pound two”

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  • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Is because with it being before, you get to know that the number is for a currency immediately, instead of finding out it’s a currency afterwards

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    • SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yes, I too deal with amounts of money large enough that I can’t see the end when I start reading it!

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      • Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You bought some RAM recently?

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• whoisearth@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Listen do you say Dollars 300 ($300) or do you say 300 Dollars (300$)?

  I rest my case lol

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  • forkDestroyer@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ll give you my 2¢ on this: I like the dollar sign before the number. When I say “3 dollars” I see it as “$3” not “3$” and I don’t see it as “dollars 3” unless I’m telling a riddle.

    Just like with American date structure: I’ll say July 26, 2026 and will see it as 07/26/2026.

    (But when I put a date in files I go for YYYY/MM/DD format)

    (Whoever created these systems had a funny sense of synergy lol)

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