• SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world
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    17 days ago

    In spoken language that makes sense to me, but in written materials I find it more helpful to know the unit in which I should be framing the numeric value I’m about to read first. Dunno why - maybe it’s just what I’m used to, and I could adapt relatively easily if I was forced to.

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        17 days ago

        Yes, actually. I frequently read a number, then the unit, then re-read the number. Or I read the unit, then the number, skipping around a bit.

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          17 days ago

          I personally don’t have it that bad but I’ve similar thoughts about written units. I must admit I do prefer everything working the same and as such think the dollar sign in front is extremely cursed.

          I also hate how few people use the ISO 8601 date standard which is super intuitive and machine friendly. And no matter what there is no excuse for the mm.dd.yyyy format.

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      17 days ago

      There was an effort to approach spoken and writen speech.

      Before the introduction of the Euro in my country we would speak and write XXXX$XX, meaning X amount, then declare the currency, followed by X of cents.

      Nowadays we just state X,X€. So X amount, with X amount of cents, then state the currency.

      Speech followed writing.

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        17 days ago

        We still say “15 Euro 20” while writing “15,20€” and neither has ever changed, I think. My childhood memories of DM aren’t that sharp

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        X,X€? So would that be “twenty, fifteen cents euros?”

        In the us, we say “twenty dollars and fifteen cents”, and write it as $20.15 which seems like it’s the same as your old system. X$.xx in speech