I understand the joke and I agree with the sentiment, but it drives me fucking insane when people put the dollar symbol after the dollar amount.
Do you say “it costs five dollars” or “it costs dollar five”? Write as you speak, please.
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.
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 250.
That’d be perfectly consistent with what we speak and solve the problem of fractional currency notation as well.
IMO it is the right way to do it (I know it isn’t in the US) You already do it for measurement symbols so why is it before when money is involved
no EArht 2 has olny tokelau for free but i can forgive you
Australia? Free? Ha! I doubt it.
How is that different than regular earth. You’re born on one continent where you don’t have to pay but you gotta pay lots of money to go to another one.
E… A… EArth: we have no shame.
