• Olhonestjim@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    People in countries that use . instead of , still use $ without changing punctuation when referring to the dollar.

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        3 hours ago

        Good lord. Because the dollar exists, and people in other countries are free to reference it without changing to our mathematical punctuation standards. Other languages have their own spellings for America too, and in their own alphabets. They don’t have to switch things up for us.

        Don’t worry, the American dollar won’t be the de facto global currency much longer, so this kind of thing will just fade away. Of course, that means we will have to learn new systems.