Thread: $ symbol

I hate when they do that- $ at the end , the runs before wickets, australia sucking so bad at cricket

Originally Posted by weeds

i have noticed on a couple of forums that the $ symbols seems to be moving to the end of the figure???

$100
100$

its just not cricket.......i.e. 3/427 is the correct way, 427/3 is incorrect (this will be the aussie's score for the 1st innings 3rd test)

yep, 3/427 is correct......... when reading the bowling figures!
Why is Australia the only country to get it the wrong way round? Bit like France driving on the wrong side of the road perhaps?
Totally agree with the $ part

Originally Posted by Rohan

yep, 3/427 is correct......... when reading the bowling figures!

ye and its also correct also for batting figures

Originally Posted by weeds

ye and its also correct also for batting figures

Originally Posted by Rohan

every other weekend i score for my boys cricket team........

it always 2 for or 6 for.......regardless weather its the battign or fielding team asking i'm so glad the ap we use on the iPad is set up this way

Originally Posted by Landy Smurf

I hate when they do that- $ at the end , the runs before wickets, australia sucking so bad at cricket

In that respect, I have great displeasure in that and other illiterations or grammatical errors, such as the use of a hyphen behind the word "that", or the proper noun "Australia", typed without capitalising the first letter, a space between a word and a comma or finishing a sentence without the period symbol.

I do however fully accept I'm a dinosaur with an understanding the universality of Muphry's Law.

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

In that respect, I have great displeasure in that and other illiterations or grammatical errors, such as the use of a hyphen behind the word "that", or the proper noun "Australia", typed without capitalising the first letter, a space between a word and a comma or finishing a sentence without the period symbol...

I fully agree Diana. My appreciation of the English language and all its intricacies isn't fantastic, afterall I'm an Engineer, not a Poet. That said, I am finding with an increasing frequency (on the forums) that I need to translate people's dreadful English into something I can actually understand before I can read it!

Maybe Im getting old, maybe people are getting lazy... or maybe I'm getting old Either way I do find bad / incorrect English very annoying.

By the way, I dread to think how many errors are contained in this response!!

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it annoys me sometimes when people get annoyed about writing on here. I guess it depends how you take it on here. to me it is just a casual chat without needing to be all proper, the way i see it is can you understand what i am saying? yes you can. can i understand what you are saying yes. some people get a bit picky and i understand different generations etc. i am not saying you are right or i am but just accept people write differently and if you cant except that dont read it. some people get too caught up in arguing the point that they actually miss the point.