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Hey foreign guys...Yankee question
Posted: 21 Feb 2016, 23:58
by Frogman Ladue
What is the UK English proper way to do the following;
Write the number "two thousand" in numbers..
Is 2000 correct?
is 2,000 correct?
is 2.000 correct?
How do y'all write down the date?
Today is February 21, 2016
Do you write that as 2/21/2016, or 21/2/2016?
If you have three tea cups in front of you, two of the cups are filled to the edge. The third is filled half way.
Do you have 2.5 cups of tea?
Do you have 2 1/2 cups of tea?
If you were to say it? Do you have "two and a half cups of tea", or do you have "two and one half cups of tea"?
Re: Hey foreign guys...Yankee question
Posted: 22 Feb 2016, 00:38
by some bloke
Frogman Ladue wrote:What is the UK English proper way to do the following;
Write the number "two thousand" in numbers..
2000 is correct
How do y'all write down the date?
Today is February 21, 2016
We write that as 21/02/2016?
If you have three tea cups in front of you, two of the cups are filled to the edge. The third is filled half way.
We have 2 1/2 cups of tea
We have "two and a half cups of tea"
Re: Hey foreign guys...Yankee question
Posted: 22 Feb 2016, 00:39
by Radagast
OZ English:
2000 or 2,000 will do. 2,000 was the norm until computers and OCR that didn't like commas.
21/2/16
Some one stole my beer and swapped it for two and a half cups of tea.
Note, there are regional variations, but not as bad as in England where some people still communicate in whistles and grunts.
Re: Hey foreign guys...Yankee question
Posted: 22 Feb 2016, 04:32
by Frogman Ladue
Who in Europe writes two thousand as 2.000?
Re: Hey foreign guys...Yankee question
Posted: 22 Feb 2016, 07:52
by phoenix
Frogman Ladue wrote:Who in Europe writes two thousand as 2.000?
Nobody as far as I know, but it's common in Europe to use a comma for a decimal point
In UK (and most of the english speaking world) 2 1/2 as a decimal would be 2.5
In many European countries it would be written as 2,5
Cheers
Bruce
Re: Hey foreign guys...Yankee question
Posted: 22 Feb 2016, 17:52
by rodp
Re: Hey foreign guys...Yankee question
Posted: 22 Feb 2016, 19:10
by poppy mae
Only from the deep south were they have enough toes and fingers to count that high........
Re: Hey foreign guys...Yankee question
Posted: 23 Feb 2016, 20:36
by stuhlschuter
Being a yank I have often wondered about that ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, counting business and of course just common sense . It has gotten to
the point that I never tell anyone where I am from .
Cheers to all here
Geo
Re: Hey foreign guys...Yankee question
Posted: 24 Feb 2016, 20:06
by Frogman Ladue
phoenix wrote:Frogman Ladue wrote:Who in Europe writes two thousand as 2.000?
Nobody as far as I know, but it's common in Europe to use a comma for a decimal point
In UK (and most of the english speaking world) 2 1/2 as a decimal would be 2.5
In many European countries it would be written as 2,5
Cheers
Bruce
Don't the Germans do something different with commas and decimal points?
Re: Hey foreign guys...Yankee question
Posted: 25 Feb 2016, 01:18
by Radagast
If you compare the current buying power of the pound vs the old pound sterling, then 2,000 pounds should be stated as 2.000 pounds.
