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I know this is __so___ off topic, but the $ goes in front of the value for USD. It should be $500. Again, again, I know read the room, there's a tragic war going on, and the US is becoming complicit in the tragedy. But if we don't have time to be pedantic about monetary symbols then what good is the freedom we still possess.

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Many americans put the euro sign before the numerical value even though most (afaik all) countries that use the euro put it after. This is such a weird thing to get bothered by.

The Eurostat style guide puts the Euro sign in front of the numbers for English text: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

I think the general rule is that in English the currency symbol for the primary currency goes in front of the number, while the symbol for a subunit (pence, cents, etc) goes after the number.

in canadian french, its 500$ and within canada its fine to have either/or. you'll see it written based on what the writer's first language is

Interesting. However, most of the world follows US-GAAP, so the global de-facto is $, for USD, to go in front of the numeric value. I learned that from this __very__ good introduction to understanding financing instruments called "Pricing Money" https://www.jdawiseman.com/books/pricing-money/Pricing_Money...

People are downvoting this, but I'm always suspicious of comments online that imply they are from the US but mess up simple details that no native US user would mess up.

Special for you: one drone costs as little as 500€. But you can donate even few dollars, everything counts. That is the power of crowdfunding.

That guy by the link, Sternenko, supplied Ukrainian forces with 100 000 drones in 2024.

I dunno, a friend of mine does this, and she's a naive born American (and so are her parents). English is her only language. She knows it's "wrong", but just likes it better.

Frankly, with both percents and dollars, we say "One-hundred dollars/percent," so putting the symbol at the front is counterintuitive to how we speak.

There is always an exception that proves the rule.

Where did they imply they were from the US? And why would that be relevant here?

Really, it's surprising that someone used dollars to convey the value of something? On a western, US-focused, English-speaking forum?

If you're saying that someone is lying, you should be more upfront. Who do you think it is?

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