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New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name (arstechnica.com)

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[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

The dollar sign in English, maybe. But other languages and currencies have the symbol after the value, so it's easy to get confused

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[–] TootGuitar@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

I understand that it’s different in other languages, but I often see this behavior from native US Americans who only speak English.

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