On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 13:19:39 GMT, sechumlib
wrote:
>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"?
Isn't it hilarious when someone jumps into the discussion not knowing
all that was written before? |