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[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

In spoken language that makes sense to me, but in written materials I find it more helpful to know what unit I should be framing the numeric value I'm about to read in first. Dunno why - maybe it's just what I'm used to, and I could adapt relatively easily if I was forced to.

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] kn33@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months 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.

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months 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.

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 9 points 10 months ago

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

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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.

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 10 months 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

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 1 points 10 months 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

[–] BritishJ@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

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