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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

But is that true for other units, too? Like miles or kilometers or kilograms or whatever you use

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Yeah, that's actually a very good point. Guess I could probably adapt more easily than I was imagining.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

You've read it backwards. Its $15.20 Or to be exact 15.20€. So its spoken 15 Euros, 20.