Assuming they didn’t confuse ¢ and €, it’s possible they were asking a threshold question. Like, if you’d be officially gay for €87, what would you do for less than a dollar?
It depends on the proportional savings. Not to me, I understand how math works, but to most people.
They’ll drive across town to save 5 cents per gallon on fuel, with a vehicle that has a 10 gallon tank (a total savings of half a dollar) but often wont drive the same distance for a product thats $10 lower than wherever they are if the product costs $500 to begin with.
I’ll be gay to save any money. Doesn’t matter to me. You got some other discount I don’t have to prove? Sure I’ll say I’m a disease vector for $2. Oh, you have a student discount where I save $1? How handy that I still have my decade-old student ID on me and always do because it doesn’t have dates on it. Why yes I did look up the local zip code to save $0.25/person on admission!
Do people pay attention to that? € should go in front, but I always put it after (because that’s how we pronounce the value in Italian) and nobody ever corrected me
I’ve never even heard that it’s supposed to go in front. Interestingly, the English Wikipedia article for the Euro does put it in front, the Italian, French and German articles does not.
Maybe it was decided to put the € in front for English, because £ and $ are in front, but to put it behind like every other measuring unit for other languages?
Thanks, that’s exactly what I was looking for. Deeper down from there, I also found the information that:
Countries/languages were allowed to continue putting the € in front or behind, like where they put their currency sign before the euro was introduced.
Yes, for English, it was decided on before, because of the £ and $.
The English EU style guide says explicitly:
The euro sign is followed by the amount without space: “a sum of €30”
The same rule applies in Dutch, Irish and Maltese. In all other official EU languages the order is reversed; the amount is followed by a hard space and the euro sign: “une somme de 30 €”
I’m glad I could point you in the direction of the rabbit hole. It’s not for nothing that my name’s Alice :)
For me it was also a good read learning about how the various languages make the plural of euro. Some languages keep “euro” as the plural, some others have a plural form (which is fine), but some others have really weird shit with complex logic. I’m always fascinated by languages!
The part that throws me is the regions that use a comma instead of a decimal, although I suppose that might simply be a holdover from non-decimal currencies
They’d forget that their currency is $ if corporate capitalism wasn’t so heavily ingrained into their national identity
(Assuming the one who made a mistake is American - even though many countries use dollars the US are the only ones bold enough to forget the internet isn’t just for them)
I genuinely wonder how many click-bait/rage-bait links about American politics get clicked abroad. Is it a chicken and the egg situation? Companies only put out what people want to see and people only see what companies put out?
Personally, it seems like people love to hate America.
€and¢are vaguely similar symbolsAssuming they didn’t confuse ¢ and €, it’s possible they were asking a threshold question. Like, if you’d be officially gay for €87, what would you do for less than a dollar?
It depends on the proportional savings. Not to me, I understand how math works, but to most people.
They’ll drive across town to save 5 cents per gallon on fuel, with a vehicle that has a 10 gallon tank (a total savings of half a dollar) but often wont drive the same distance for a product thats $10 lower than wherever they are if the product costs $500 to begin with.
I’ll be gay to save any money. Doesn’t matter to me. You got some other discount I don’t have to prove? Sure I’ll say I’m a disease vector for $2. Oh, you have a student discount where I save $1? How handy that I still have my decade-old student ID on me and always do because it doesn’t have dates on it. Why yes I did look up the local zip code to save $0.25/person on admission!
There’s also ₡ (the CRC symbol)
That makes so much sense, thank you.
Ya but ¢ goes after the number
Do people pay attention to that? € should go in front, but I always put it after (because that’s how we pronounce the value in Italian) and nobody ever corrected me
Same in English, goes in front but pronounced after
I’ve never even heard that it’s supposed to go in front. Interestingly, the English Wikipedia article for the Euro does put it in front, the Italian, French and German articles does not.
Maybe it was decided to put the € in front for English, because £ and $ are in front, but to put it behind like every other measuring unit for other languages?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro
This is the page you’re looking for Written conventions for the euro in the languages of EU member states.
Thanks, that’s exactly what I was looking for. Deeper down from there, I also found the information that:
Sources:
I’m glad I could point you in the direction of the rabbit hole. It’s not for nothing that my name’s Alice :)
For me it was also a good read learning about how the various languages make the plural of euro. Some languages keep “euro” as the plural, some others have a plural form (which is fine), but some others have really weird shit with complex logic. I’m always fascinated by languages!
I’m just surprised the French don’t call it Orue.
Yes and no, I guess. It’s the arbitrary, prescriptive way to write cents that USians learn in school.
It would look wrong to me if I saw a sign advertising something for ¢50 or 0.50$.
That said, I also learned to always put commas inside the quotation, “like so,” but I think that’s super dumb and I refuse to do it.
The part that throws me is the regions that use a comma instead of a decimal, although I suppose that might simply be a holdover from non-decimal currencies
logical quotation supremacy
They’d forget that their currency is $ if corporate capitalism wasn’t so heavily ingrained into their national identity
(Assuming the one who made a mistake is American - even though many countries use dollars the US are the only ones bold enough to forget the internet isn’t just for them)
I genuinely wonder how many click-bait/rage-bait links about American politics get clicked abroad. Is it a chicken and the egg situation? Companies only put out what people want to see and people only see what companies put out?
Personally, it seems like people love to hate America.