googled wrote:
> If our Canadian friend had posted ".50¢" or ".50¢c" ".50c¢" you would have a
> point to make, but they didn't. Here is a cut and paste of the relevant
> section of the post: "it sucks when you go to buy a stamp for the post
> price of .50c and you have to pay .54c because of GST." There is no "¢"
> anywhere in the post.
Why ARE you so dense? Of course there isn't any "¢" when he's talking
Canadian currency. IT DOESN'T MATTER! ".50c" in Canadian is just as
meaningless - or rather, it means half a cent.
Or do they have a different convention in Canada which says the decimal
point should always be ignored if it's there? Somehow, I give Canadians
credit for more intelligence than that.
By any sensible linguistic standard, ".50c" would mean half a Canadian
cent. "50c" would mean fifty Canadian cents. Otherwise, what's the
"point" of the decimal "point"? |