Dollar sign usage!

[Nihon_Ni]

I can't take it anymore.  How do people not know how to properly use the US dollar sign?  I learned in high school how to properly annotate all types of foreign currency, it's not that hard!  I get that many people here are not native English speakers, you all get a pass.

10$ doesn't equate to ten US dollars.  $10 does. 

If you're an American selling cigars for 10$, it just shows me how ignorant you are.

/rant.

[RamonBocAllone]

Look what the virus did to the world.

[tstoner86]

Almost as annoying as using the “word” irregardless.


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[perfectoman]

Yea, it's almost as stupid as just putting down 10.00  :bounce:

Like he/she said....yall go on back and git ya sum schoolin.

[Pole Lock]

[quote author=tstoner86 link=topic=50274.msg195909#msg195909 date=1590234364]
Almost as annoying as using the “word” irregardless.


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Fun fact: I sometimes type irregardless to be daft, and autocorrect does NOT mark it as a misspelling or attempt to change it!  We're doomed.

[H Upmann]

I'm purposely saying I could care less to antagonize yooose all.

[Pole Lock]

[quote author=H Upmann link=topic=50274.msg195915#msg195915 date=1590248230]
I'm purposely saying I could care less to antagonize yooose all.
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I don't know which came first, but there's the honest "I couldn't care less" as well as the sarcastic "I could care less."  It's all in the delivery, which is a bit of an art alright.

[Nihon_Ni]

[quote author=Pole Lock link=topic=50274.msg195916#msg195916 date=1590252407]
I don't know which came first, but there's the honest "I couldn't care less" as well as the sarcastic "I could care less."  It's all in the delivery, which is a bit of an art alright.
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To me, these show a level of dedication of the speaker.  For example, "I couldn't care less about basketball."  Honestly, I've tried to care less about it, but I can't -- I'm at the lowest amount of care there is for that sport.  Now, if I said "I could care less about basketball." it means that there is room for my level of care to go down, but I just haven't done it yet.  Maybe I'm saving it for a retirement hobby?  Who knows!

I would put some more thought into it, but I could care less.

[TheGipper]

This thread literally peaked my curiosity and begs the question, "Why, for all intensive purposes, does this topic bemuse me?"

[tstoner86]

[quote author=TheGipper link=topic=50274.msg195928#msg195928 date=1590294225]
This thread literally peaked my curiosity and begs the question, "Why, for all intensive purposes, does this topic bemuse me?"
[/quote]
Oh I always thought that was “in tents of porpoises!”


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