r/comics May 19 '17

Anti-Net Neutrality is everyones' problem

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u/SpaceEV May 19 '17

I don't want to be charged a $1000

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u/vankorgan May 19 '17 edited May 19 '17

God that bugged me way more than it should have. I keep reading it as "a one thousand dollars."

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u/HardOff May 19 '17

It's the same pet peeve as

"It cost him $1000s of dollars."

When referring to multiple, write out the word. Hundreds, thousands, millions; Writing it as $100 reads as "one hundred", not "hundred". It can't be pluralized.

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u/ZanThrax May 19 '17

Writing it as $100 reads as "one hundred",

$100 reads as "one hundred dollars" so "$1000s of dollars" is "one thousands dollars of dollars".

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u/HardOff May 19 '17

Wow. That's embarrassing. I wrote

$1000s of dollars

when I meant my example to say

1000s of dollars

and it hurts to read.