• ZiemekZ@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Do you say “it costs five dollars” or “it costs dollar five”? Write as you speak, please.

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      1 year ago

      Do you write 4$ and 50¢?

      Or do you write $4.50

      And if you write $4.50 do you say “dollars four period fifty”?

      That’s not nearly the justification that you think it is.

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        1 year ago

        I write 5 zł (5 zlotys, 5 PLN) or 5€ (5 euros, 5 EUR) because in Europe we don’t unnecesarily invert the currency symbol compared to what we speak. The following system, which I found on Wikipedia, would make the most sense:

        Exceptionally, the symbol for the Cape Verdean escudo (like the Portuguese escudo, to which it was formerly pegged) is placed in the decimal separator position, as in 2Image50.

        That’d be perfectly consistent with what we speak and solve the problem of fractional currency notation as well.