Dollar sign ($) after the price?

[esum80]

 

[Turtlejuice]

It's kind of them muppets that put the month before the day.

 

[Tycho- Taylor's Version]

Well you say "ten dollars" not "dollar ten".

Nah, just fucking with you.

 

[loyalyolayal]

just...fuck.

 

[Foots]

The worst is when people spell favorite as "favourite." WTF?

 

[ToxicShocker]

You should have been fired.

I was like 6 months later. My firing packet was 90 pages of shit she didn't like about me.

 

[Wet Blanket]

I think they do that in French Canada.

Yup, they do.

 

[faustian]

Well you say "ten dollars" not "dollar ten".

Nah, just fucking with you.

All jokes aside that line of reasoning appears to make sense when we literally think "ten dollars", but I believe if we get a bit more abstract with it, the $ sign signifies that everything behind it is to be understood in terms of money. When you walk into a room and commence a negotiation, there's the obvious understanding that the figures being discussed are done so in terms of money. So it's basically like you sit down at the table, both parties silently acknowledge the imaginary $ sign, and then proceed on with the #s while understanding that figures being discussed are all in terms of $s. This kind of understanding is obvious in person, but on paper there might be some ambiguity if a $ sign isn't denoted. Since the entire purpose of the numbers being written are to denominate measurements of $, it makes sense to have the $ sign first, for the $ sign is what gives context to the #s that follow

 

[DragRacer]

Those assholes should be stabbed in the belly for that.

The worst is when people spell favorite as "favourite." WTF?