Posted: 19 August 2017 at 5:23am | IP Logged | 4
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JB asked what was not clear about his initial post.I wasn't sure whether the documentary was saying that the use of a comma exclusively meant someone was being angry - in every use.
Next up was the use of dots instead of commas in numbers. This seems to be a mainland European thing. I'm not sure when they started to do this, but everyone I work with over there say that it has been like this their entire lives, so I'm thinking we are seeing it now in the UK and USA as migration increases. I'm not defending it as it has caused many a confused moment in the collaborative projects I have worked on in the past, before I started establishing the number rules at the beginning of each project.
'They recycled one tonne?' 'No, they recycled one thousand tonnes'
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