Hey, guys. You know that little symbol that looks like an S with a line through it? Oh, wait here it is. It looks a little different in this font but you can see it’s not a standard S:
$
This means “dollars.” If you write “$1 million,” that means “One million dollars.”
If, on the other hand, you write “$1 million dollars,” that means “One million dollars dollars,” which of course is really stupid and irritates the living shit out of me.
I’m seeing this error more and more everywhere around me, including my otherwise bright folks on this board.
For fuck’s sake. “Dollars Dollars” are not a currency used anywhere in the world. Stop it!
I come from a land with dollars and my keyboard does this . When I do this... I probably mean my dollars not yours. On the off chance I meant your I would say US.
When you say you speak English do you mean English or Engli$h? Clarification would be helpful. Your Engli$h is clearly not used anywhere else in the world.
You’re not up to the latest developments in multi-dimensional currency, are you?
Let me educate you. The old unit of currency was the single-dimensional dollar, which has now been superseded through most of the fashionable regions of our galaxy by the far more useful dollar-squared, or dollar-dollar, in keeping with standard scientific usage.
The dollar-squared is an 8-dimensional currency note (6 space dimensions, 2 time dimensions) that can either be rolled up very small and made invisible or spread out to cover any required area. Since it can also move along multiple time dimensions, it allows for some of the extremely creative accounting required by corporates and governments throughout the Eta Phi region of the galaxy.
Of course, you can also hybridise currencies this way, using standard genetic fusion techniques, allowing South Korean biologists to develop interesting new currencies such as the €1 dollar (invades the world and then gets bogged down in negotiations about farm subsidies), the £1 Swiss Franc (makes clocks out of chocolate and has trains that run to the second but are full of binge-drinkers) and many others.
Long may multi-dimensional currency reign; enjoy your $1 million dollars!
'1 million dollars' drives me up the wall also, along with .25 (add a zero in the ones place so the decimal point doesn’t get lost!) and $0.25c (which is it: $0.25 or 0.25c?)
That’s the common French style, as used in Quebec. Possibly it’s also the style used in Mexico, where $ is the peso sign; I don’t know.
That would be a strange thing to do when you consider I don’t live in the United States.
Actually, I don’t mind “PIN number,” although I know it drives some people batty. The more technically correct options sound funny; “PIN” just sounds like you’re saying the word that refers to a pointy little thing, and “PI number” either sounds like you’re talking about 3.14159 , if you say it as “pie number,” or as if you want to call a private investigator, if you say “P-I number.” “PIN number” makes it clearer what you mean if you’re saying it out loud.