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The other day, I posted the following fact which I had read about in my latest Shonen Jump Super Yum-Yum manga:
http://www.gullible.info/archive.php?m=2006-03#post537
• The latest fad for Japanese schoolgirls is leaving the tags on
their new clothes, including the price tag. They can even buy "tag protectors"
for about 2300 Yen (about $3.75) to cover the tags when washing their
garments.
I received the following missive this morning from someone who I'll refer to as Keith. Keith is his real name. I thought about changing it, you know, to protect the innocent and all. But then I got to thinking. I mean, what have the innocent ever done for me? Nothing. So Keith it remains.
From: Keith
Type of message: Factual Error
You need to look in to the conversion rates for yen again. 2300 yen is
roughly $20 US. $3.75 would be about 400 yen. i know this as i have to do these
conversions every single day as i am an American living in Japan.
To cut to the chase, in one sense, Keith is right. The conversion from 2300 Yen to U.S. Dollars would come to about $19.50. And since I didn't specify, the "logical" assumption of the Ameri-centric world (which of course totally revolves around the U.S.) would be that I had intended U.S. Dollars.
However, Keith assumed that I live in America and thus I'm in on the world Ameri-archy conspiracy.
I don't and I'm not.
In fact, the $ symbol is used by my native Kamchatka to represent the Silver Ino. Note that the $ symbol is composed of an "S" and an "I", thus a perfect representation of the abbreviation S.I., and a clear connection to Silver Ino. We also use the @ to represent the Aino and the % for the Oovero, but those are fairly small amounts compared to the Ino, so you'd rarely see that outside Kamchatka.
Kamchatka is much closer to Japan than the U.S., so I'm suprised that you, living in Japan, would not have realized this.
The correct symbol for U.S. Dollars is an "S" with TWO lines vertically through it. Unfortunately, my Kamchatcan keyboard doesn't have that symbol on it, so I can't type it for you.
Sorry about the confusion, and I'll be sure to specify either Kamchatkan Silver Inos or U.S. Dollars in the future to avoid any future currency problems.
Well in that light. I also am sorry for the confusion. I do certinaly appriciate the clarification on the issue. Thank you.
I find it interesting that even on an American keyboard I am unable to type the correct symbol for US Dollars. There's only $ with one line through it.
I'm guessing that your keyboard was not actually made in the U.S.; the large majority of keyboards are made in China or Korea, both of which are nearby Kamchatka, so the confusion is understandable.
my keyboard also only has $ on it.
I think it must be a language change thing, where people just got too lazy to write both lines, and simplified the symbol... either that, or we neet to complain to the computer manufacturers.. ;-)
or it's cheaper. There is some other discussion about how deleting "0" from dates could save a bunch of money and maybe it applies here, though I thinks its more likely what Taed said, confusion.
Support for the dollar symbol with two vertical bars?
The Wikipedia Brain-Trust seems to be under the impression that $ has always been the correct symbol for the U.S. Dollar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_sign
Wikipedia is written my people like you and me.
Exactly. I certainly don't trust myself about the finer points of currency symbology, why should I trust Wikipedia? Am I the only person who was paying attention to the news about the FAKE Wikipedia articles that libeled a poor old man?! I'm considering making a blanket rule banning using Wikipedia for citations. Frankly people, it's just too unreliable.
Wikipedia brain-trust. What's the word for three-word oxymoron?
This article explains the origins of the word dollar and, lower down, the two-stroke S as the mixture of U and S for the United States. Taed, kudos to you.
and whaddaya know its british! isnt it just great when you yanks have to call upon the true brains of the world to work things out - i mean its your currency, i would have thought you could work it out yourself!
From just a few minutes of research on non-wiki sites, i.e. government and travel agency sites, it seems the official symbol for dollar in the United States is an 'S' with a single line through it. There seems to be many theories on why the double line is used but according to the US Mint the single line is the correct symbol.
Why a person living in Kamchatka (a region that seems to speak Russian and uses roubles as currency although I have never been there) is posting a quote in English then critisizing English speakers for correcting him.
Also, it's not just the keyboard that uses the single line 'S' symbol but the character mapping of the OS, and since Windows is an American OS I highly doubt they mistakenly used the Kamchatka symbol in the type set. :$
Shalabi... go and check out the link I posted. The actual correct symbol is an S with two lines through it. If you notice, the currency and coin of the USA does not have a symbol imprinted--it always has the word "dollar" written out.
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