Comment on Carenheit

• Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨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 ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    USAian defaultism is always hilarious

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    • Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨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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      • atro_city@fedia.io ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I see, that's understandable. We all have pet-peeves. Mine is the date format in the US that has spread month-day-year. Most of Europe is day-month-year and it's very confusing when people start adopting US formats because they watch so much stuff from the US.

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    • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨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 ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Get off our internet if you don’t like it

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      • Zombie@feddit.uk ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The set of communication protocols to enable internetworking on the Internet arose from research and development commissioned in the 1970s by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the United States Department of Defense in collaboration with universities and researchers across the United States, United Kingdom and France.[4][5][6]

        en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet

        The Web was invented by English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee while at CERN

        en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web

        Bloody ignorant loud mouth Americans claiming credit for group projects, as usual.

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  • Demdaru@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨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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    • blackbeans@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨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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    • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨15⁩ ⁨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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      • thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        I know the Indians have their 2 digit 3 digit thing, who else does interesting groupings ?

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    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Space is what ISO recommends using.

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  • expr@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨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 ⁨15⁩ ⁨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 ⁨15⁩ ⁨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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      • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Where are your manners!?

        That’s alright, but “Where are your manners!?” comes off a bit hostile. But in any case, have a nice day.

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      • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        One of my favorite things about Lemmy is how many of us are in the autism/ADHD neurotribe. We can read your response and be like, “Oh, okay. Yeah, I get where you’re coming from” and roll along with understanding, without the need for senseless hostility.

        Just another day, another misinterpretation - we’ve all been there.

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  • syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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