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Not sure if this is truly an economics question but it has to do with using a dollar sign.
Lately I've seen a trend of people writing 100$ rather than $100. I could understand if it was someone who was not a native (American) English speaker who was used to the convention of the symbol after the number from their native language. But in some cases these are people I know in real life and that is definitely not the explanation.
Has anyone else observed this trend? Anyone know where it's coming from?
There are way too many victims of the public schools out there who have never been taught the correct means of expression. In grammar, is spieling, in context,
Lately I've seen a trend of people writing 100$ rather than $100.
Has anyone else observed this trend? Anyone know where it's coming from?
It's a European thing; UK mostly.
Rather like Americans adding superfluous vowels to simple words (eg: colour)
using this format allows them to think they are sophisticated and worldly.
Hey apparently people can make money of poverty. If they can make something tangible out of something intangible they can sure put the $ where they want.
In the old days people would make money off poverty.
There are way too many victims of the public schools out there who have never been taught the correct means of expression. In grammar, is spieling, in context,
I haven't seen the 100$ before this thread. The ones that make me cringe are "loose/lose" and the West Coast desire to put "THE" in front of everything -- "The 10," "The U" or "The O.C."
I've seen it typically happen when you're dealing with a potential for multiple currencies.
100$ is the shorter version of 100$USD, because you could also be referring to 100$AUD (Australian Dollars). There are a surprisingly high number of countries that all have a "Dollar" and putting it at the end allows you to put a currency code separate from the number. Similiarly, many people when typing don't want to bother to figure out how to put the Euro symbol so they'll type 100$EUR.
$100USD could be used, however they blend together, and for currencies that start with letters that look like numbers(the the Dominican Peso- $100DOP, or Indian Rupee $100INR) it's just asking for a problem if hand written because the first letter looks like a number.
But aside from that, yes, it's common in Europe, so anyone from there or dealing with Europeans a lot may write it that way.
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I haven't seen the 100$ before this thread. The ones that make me cringe are "loose/lose" and the West Coast desire to put "THE" in front of everything -- "The 10," "The U" or "The O.C."
That's not a west coast thing, we don't do it here, and didn't do it in northern CA.
I think it's because we say it as 100 dollars so they substitute dollars with $ and say 100$.
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