• Sureito@feddit.de
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    2 years ago
    1. They better put something nice into that envelope - it seems unnecessarily expensive /s
    2. That’s not how you use € - it’s a unit of measurement. It belongs at the end like you would say it. That’s so American for something called france24
    • johan@feddit.nl
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      2 years ago

      That’s not how you use €

      The whole article is in English so it makes total sense to use it they way they did. The € sign doesn’t determine where it goes, the language does. In Dutch it would also be €10, not 10€.

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        2 years ago

        Is it really Americanisation when several countries have been doing this for decades already? The Dutch even did it with their old currency (gulden), though it would be f 2,50 (with a space, and a fancier f than this one)

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        2 years ago

        I don’t know if France24 is doing it because the US uses a leading currency symbol, but if so, we in the US obtained the convention of having a leading currency symbol from the British, so technically it’s the Europization of Europe.

        I am kind of inclined to think that France24 isn’t doing it because it’s a US convention, as the date right below it is DD/MM/YYYY, while the US convention would be MM/DD/YYYY (and in my opinion, the world standard should probably be YYYY-MM-DD, but that’s another story).