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I understand the joke and I agree with the sentiment, but it drives me fucking insane when people put the dollar symbol after the dollar amount.
Do you say "it costs five dollars" or "it costs dollar five"? Write as you speak, please.
Do you write 4$ and 50¢?
Or do you write $4.50
And if you write $4.50 do you say "dollars four period fifty"?
That's not nearly the justification that you think it is.
Do you write 4$ or $4 if you don't have cents? I really don't know how you do it in US
I write 5 zł (5 zlotys, 5 PLN) or 5€ (5 euros, 5 EUR) because in Europe we don't unnecesarily invert the currency symbol compared to what we speak. The following system, which I found on Wikipedia, would make the most sense:
Exceptionally, the symbol for the Cape Verdean escudo (like the Portuguese escudo, to which it was formerly pegged) is placed in the decimal separator position, as in 2
50.That'd be perfectly consistent with what we speak and solve the problem of fractional currency notation as well.