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[alright2565 → nirvgorilla]

There are folks from all around the world online, and many countries place their currency symbol after the amount.

[josephcsible → alright2565]

But the post in question was giving an amount in US dollars, and the US isn't such a country.

[testTED → josephcsible]

Habits die hard.

Like thinking people in other countries are kids in your own country.

[awad → nirvgorilla]

And yet you still understood what they were saying. It's not that serious.

[Jeremy1026 → nirvgorilla]

It's entirely possible they aren't American. Remember, the internet is global.

[nirvgorilla → Jeremy1026]

In the 90s and early 2000s, people, even from other countries, typed it correctly on the internet. I have the EFnet IRC logs right now on my hard drive if you need proof. Hell I'm tempted to make a youtube video just to prove my point.

[netsharc → nirvgorilla]

Here's a foreigner who made the mistake in the 1930's: https://www.britannica.com/event/Lindbergh-baby-kidnapping#/...

I'm amused how mad you got about this. I wish my life was that luxurious that all I can be enraged about is where people put their dollar sign.

[InitialLastName → nirvgorilla]

Yes, nothing convinces people like an angry YouTube rant about how "kids these days" don't appreciate the bad old days of the internet.

[AceyMan → nirvgorilla]

Hmm, I'm a grammar pedant and that one has never bothered me except in formal prose (real journalism, marketing copy, books).

It's spoken that way ("one-hundred dollars") so it's actually kind of intuitive to write it that way, even if it's technically 'wrong.'

[nirvgorilla → AceyMan]

Oh really? Then why don't we say QUESTION MARK or PERIOD verbally for each sentence of you think the $ literally means "dollars?"

[fragmede → nirvgorilla]

because we have other clues for that. A question is denoted by a raise in tone at the end of the sentence. A period is denoted by a pause.

[newaccount74 → nirvgorilla]

Probably people from other countries where currency typically goes behind the number like 100€.

[fredophile → nirvgorilla]

In English that's correct but this is a common mistake for ESL people.