The dollar sign comes before the number. Putting it behind the number is just another effect of micro plastics. 😢
Yet another American convention that makes no damn sense
“Hmm yes, I am going to buy that ice cream for dollar one”
Thinking this is an exclusively American convention is yet another effect of microplastics…
We’re dooooooomed 😭
It’s definitely not an EU thing. And the rest of the world don’t count, especially New Zealand.
I dunno, seems reasonable to me in the same way that Spanish using “¿” at the beginning of a question makes sense.
That it’s inconsistent with other units is certainly annoying, but if anything I think it’s the more sensible way.
Spanish is definitely fucked, putting the adjective after the noun. You don’t pet the brown dog, you pet the dog brown.
It’s a convention for writing checks. If the dollar amount on a check read “300.00$” there’s nothing stopping me from writing “1300.00$” on there. But if you put “$300.00” that number is enclosed on both sides and there is no chance of being able to modify it (without significantly more effort that can be much more easily noticed)