To me putting it first feels funny. Euro 100, instead of 100 euros. While writing it you need to remember to put the symbol before writing the amount. Funny thing
I’ll give you my 2¢ on this: I like the dollar sign before the number. When I say “3 dollars” I see it as “$3” not “3$” and I don’t see it as “dollars 3” unless I’m telling a riddle.
Just like with American date structure: I’ll say July 26, 2026 and will see it as 07/26/2026.
(But when I put a date in files I go for YYYY/MM/DD format)
(Whoever created these systems had a funny sense of synergy lol)
It’s also annoying when Europeans swap the comma and decimal on currency amounts too, especially given that you don’t do that when writing sentences. Few things more infuriating than seeing an amount written out like 2.999,95€! Where are your manners!?
“It’s so infuriating when people communicate in ways I’m not used to!”
Doesn’t sound great.
According to ISO 80000-1, the decimal separator can either be a period or a comma, and no preference is given to either. Many American software systems support both (including the software I work on). It’s really quite normal and mundane.
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I see, that’s understandable. We all have pet-peeves. Mine is the date format in the US that has spread month-day-year. Most of Europe is day-month-year and it’s very confusing when people start adopting US formats because they watch so much stuff from the US.
IMO any date standard other than ISO 8601 is wrong too. Year-Month-Date makes the most sense from a chronological standpoint. Also makes sorting files by date easier.
We use, if needed, apostrophes or upticks. 2’999,95. No danger of messing up between . and , that way.
Also let’s just wait until that person learns that not every country separates into blocks of 3 and how many options of mixing and matching there are in use.
Wish everyone just followed the ISO norm. It dictates that you can either use a period or a comma as decimal separator. And for the thousands separator, just use a space.
Well like I said to the other person, it’s not a “I think the US is superior” thing; very much the opposite. I simply have autism. (ADHD too but that’s not relevant here.)
One of my favorite things about Lemmy is how many of us are in the autism/ADHD neurotribe, or at least have an understanding about it. We can read your response and be like, “Oh, okay. Yeah, I get where you’re coming from” and roll along, without the need for senseless hostility.
Just another day, another misinterpretation - we’ve all been there. Carry on.
Technically, I think that C° is used to express differences or ranges of temperatures. For instance the difference between 15 °C and 20 °C is 5 C°. Or you could say something like, “5 C° more is all it takes for me to start wearing shorts”.
I feel like that would have come up at some point during my two years of thermodynamics classes where we were constantly using ∆T. just did a search for “C°” in quotes, and for delta T; first one returned nothing, second showed a bunch of sources where the units of ∆T were °C. any idea where you might have heard this?
I’m old. Google tells me that “Celcius degrees” used to be used for differences or ranges, but modern standards just use “degrees celcius” for everything. My experience would come from thermodynamics classes in the 1980’s.
you’ve got me, I don’t know what C° is, I only know °C
Probably OOPs engagement bait, it gets me every time I see this meme 😭
Now that you pointed it out, this annoys me more than people who put the currency sign after the amount.
To me putting it first feels funny. Euro 100, instead of 100 euros. While writing it you need to remember to put the symbol before writing the amount. Funny thing
Listen do you say Dollars 300 ($300) or do you say 300 Dollars (300$)?
I rest my case lol
I’ll give you my 2¢ on this: I like the dollar sign before the number. When I say “3 dollars” I see it as “$3” not “3$” and I don’t see it as “dollars 3” unless I’m telling a riddle.
Just like with American date structure: I’ll say July 26, 2026 and will see it as 07/26/2026.
(But when I put a date in files I go for YYYY/MM/DD format)
(Whoever created these systems had a funny sense of synergy lol)
I dont know why that annoys me. It does annoy me but it shouldn’t because at least it has a logic to it.
£2 Is spoken “two pounds” not “pound two”
Is because with it being before, you get to know that the number is for a currency immediately, instead of finding out it’s a currency afterwards
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You bought some RAM recently?
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Welcome to Europa were we do exactly that, as the placement of the currency symbol is a locale thing not a universal.
Yeah I know, it drives me crazy.
It’s also annoying when Europeans swap the comma and decimal on currency amounts too, especially given that you don’t do that when writing sentences. Few things more infuriating than seeing an amount written out like 2.999,95€! Where are your manners!?
People who deviate from the rule that units go after the number drive me batty.
Like what, is the US equivalent of X €/kWh written $ X / kWh or something??? Absolutely disgusting
“It’s so infuriating when people communicate in ways I’m not used to!”
Doesn’t sound great.
According to ISO 80000-1, the decimal separator can either be a period or a comma, and no preference is given to either. Many American software systems support both (including the software I work on). It’s really quite normal and mundane.
USAian defaultism is always hilarious
It’s not just Americans that use the comma as a spacer and a period for a decimal
Get off our internet if you don’t like it 🇺🇸🔫💪
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web
Bloody ignorant loud mouth Americans claiming credit for group projects, as usual.
Yep, we employ people from all over the world.
I can’t help that I was born here. FWIW I’m not a blind patriot, I just have autism.
I see, that’s understandable. We all have pet-peeves. Mine is the date format in the US that has spread month-day-year. Most of Europe is day-month-year and it’s very confusing when people start adopting US formats because they watch so much stuff from the US.
IMO any date standard other than ISO 8601 is wrong too. Year-Month-Date makes the most sense from a chronological standpoint. Also makes sorting files by date easier.
It’s only useful for storing data, in the real world you want to know the day and sometimes the month, is very rae to want to know the year
Something tells me that ISO was created to make programming easier. Time/date stuff on computers are a menace in general.
Where I live we…just use comma. So 2999,95. No reason to add useless separators in the middle, and if we do for clarity sake, we use space (2 999,95).
This is gonna irk you further, isn’t it…? xD
Space is what ISO recommends using.
We use, if needed, apostrophes or upticks. 2’999,95. No danger of messing up between . and , that way.
Also let’s just wait until that person learns that not every country separates into blocks of 3 and how many options of mixing and matching there are in use.
Separators aren’t useless; they help greatly in reading large numbers.
Wish everyone just followed the ISO norm. It dictates that you can either use a period or a comma as decimal separator. And for the thousands separator, just use a space.
manners? Where is your freedom, as you took that notation (0,000.00) from your british overlords.
Well like I said to the other person, it’s not a “I think the US is superior” thing; very much the opposite. I simply have autism. (ADHD too but that’s not relevant here.)
One of my favorite things about Lemmy is how many of us are in the autism/ADHD neurotribe, or at least have an understanding about it. We can read your response and be like, “Oh, okay. Yeah, I get where you’re coming from” and roll along, without the need for senseless hostility.
Just another day, another misinterpretation - we’ve all been there. Carry on.
That’s alright, but “Where are your manners!?” comes off a bit hostile. But in any case, have a nice day.
Don’t worry I’m just being cheeky. I inserted that bit to keep the comment lighthearted.
Sure, but that doesn’t stop the localities that put it after from being totally wrong and stupid.
but you say “its 15 US Dollar”, and not “its US Dollar 15”? Same with any other unit (which a currency is) “x m, y seconds, z newton”
Speaking things and reading things aren’t 1 to 1 the same.
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Technically, I think that C° is used to express differences or ranges of temperatures. For instance the difference between 15 °C and 20 °C is 5 C°. Or you could say something like, “5 C° more is all it takes for me to start wearing shorts”.
I’m pretty sure you’ve made this up. °C is the unit regardless
How would you “say” this, “Five Celcius degrees more…”?
I reject your reality and substitute my own.
I feel like that would have come up at some point during my two years of thermodynamics classes where we were constantly using ∆T. just did a search for “C°” in quotes, and for delta T; first one returned nothing, second showed a bunch of sources where the units of ∆T were °C. any idea where you might have heard this?
I’m old. Google tells me that “Celcius degrees” used to be used for differences or ranges, but modern standards just use “degrees celcius” for everything. My experience would come from thermodynamics classes in the 1980’s.