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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

There was an effort to approach spoken and writen speech.

Before the introduction of the Euro in my country we would speak and write XXXX$XX, meaning X amount, then declare the currency, followed by X of cents.

Nowadays we just state X,X€. So X amount, with X amount of cents, then state the currency.

Speech followed writing.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

We still say "15 Euro 20" while writing "15,20€" and neither has ever changed, I think. My childhood memories of DM aren't that sharp

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

X,X€? So would that be "twenty, fifteen cents euros?"

In the us, we say "twenty dollars and fifteen cents", and write it as $20.15 which seems like it's the same as your old system. X$.xx in speech

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

You've read it backwards. Its $15.20 Or to be exact 15.20€. So its spoken 15 Euros, 20.