• qyron@sopuli.xyz
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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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      17 days ago

      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