Timeline for Meaning and acceptability of "One fifty" when speaking of dollars
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| Jun 15, 2020 at 7:40 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Nov 9, 2012 at 3:58 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/266751630677004289 | ||
| Nov 5, 2012 at 9:19 | history | edited | brandizzi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 2, 2012 at 23:04 | answer | added | Anurag Kalia | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 2, 2012 at 16:54 | history | edited | StoneyB on hiatus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 2, 2012 at 16:52 | comment | added | brandizzi | @FumbleFingers this seems to be the same situation. I am not asking about the use of "and", as I have noted before. Anyway, Charles never said “One fifty dollars” can mean $1.50; what he said is that “One fifty” can mean $1.50. I cannot assure it is correct but at least ten people agree with him and horatio subscribes to his explanation. Even if this point of Charles answer is wrong, clearly “One fifty” can mean 150 or 150 000, which is still a challenge for interpretation (at least for non-native speakers) | |
| Nov 2, 2012 at 15:58 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | Here's another one then. Frankly, I think they're all General Reference. Charles answer is not correct, so far as I'm concerned, since your “One fifty dollars” can never mean $1.50. | |
| Nov 2, 2012 at 15:35 | vote | accept | brandizzi | ||
| Nov 2, 2012 at 15:24 | comment | added | brandizzi | @FumbleFingers to be honest, I cannot see what the questions have in common. The supposedly duplicated one seems to be about the use of "and" to separate some parts of some numbers. My confusion is mostly about not using the "hundred" in the number. Anyway, if Charles answer is correct (and it seems to be) this is hardly a "general reference" but instead a complex, context-dependent slang. | |
| Nov 2, 2012 at 14:59 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Nov 2, 2012 at 14:43 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | possible duplicate of "Three-hundred forty-two" or "three-hundred and forty-two"? (itself closed as General Reference). | |
| Nov 2, 2012 at 14:14 | answer | added | choster | timeline score: 5 | |
| Nov 2, 2012 at 13:59 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | And a "dime" is $10 in drug transactions, and may represent $1,000 in other colloquial situations. | |
| Nov 2, 2012 at 13:55 | comment | added | Robusto | To add to the confusion, in American slang the numbers 150 and 150,000 (whether in currency or not) are frequently rendered as "a buck fifty," as in, "The new company offered me a buck fifty to stay but I can get more elsewhere." | |
| Nov 2, 2012 at 13:55 | answer | added | StoneyB on hiatus | timeline score: 27 | |
| Nov 2, 2012 at 13:48 | answer | added | Charles | timeline score: 22 | |
| Nov 2, 2012 at 13:38 | history | asked | brandizzi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |