Why is it we "say" ten dollars>>>?!
Question:
Why is it we "say" ten dollars>>>?
yet type it $10, in reverse??
i'm worrying myself SICK over this! :-)
Answers: It's simply a convention, like much of what we do.
My guess is that it is because of decimal numbers. At times we measure to the half cent... 0.005. Because there can technically be an infinite number of decimal places, it could be awkward to add columns of numbers FOLLOWED by the $. It wouldn't make things look very neat, and could throw off the result if $ were mistaken for a number. (and if you don't think number formation is an art... trust me. I teach math :)
Just a guess... but I bet that's why we have the convention of the $ preceding the numerical amount. Sorry I don't know but that's a good question? cause were americans we do everything backwards I don't know,...I only wish it made cents. because that's just the way it is....10$...does that look right to you? I think the same exact thing whenever i type out the dollar sign... i dont know either- its a symbol thing I hate it when I'm reading something and they mention "$2 billion" and I see the '$' and '2' before the 'billion' and as I'm reading, I'm thinking "two dollars, billion...argh! Two billion dollars!? Why can't they just spell it out?!"
At that point, I forget what I was reading about and I'm so mad that I go down the street and bust windows out of my neighbors cars! Because "dollar 10, love me long time" doesn't have quite the same ring to it....... It bothers me that in our language we have so many things that are inconsistent. Like why is there a "U" in guilty. Like OJ is guilty. Why is there a U in guilty.
Like we all know OJ is guilty, so why do we need a U in it. Are you guilty? Am I guilty? NO. OJ is guilty.
It seems to me that we should point the finger where it belongs and start saying OJ is guilty rather than trying to deflect it and saying U are guilty instead. I am not guilty, neither are you. OJ is.
I think the world would be a better place if we just told it like it is and stop letting this madman go free.
And speaking of guilt, why is there an "I" in guilty. Am I guilty, are you guilty,............:) yes,i always wondered that too!
the euro symbol goes behind!10E[i can't do the exact symbol on my pc:)]
just like for october 2 2007,the USA writes it:10/2/07
but europe writes it:2/10/07 I don't know, but please don't be so upset :) Because in America the dollar always comes first!