(I wrote that when groggy, but my thinking was that it’s supposed to be read aloud/verbally, so you’d ignore the $ and say the cents. My brain was still asleep.)
About $3.50
E: also why do we say “three dollars and fifty cents” when it’s clearly “dollar three [and] fifty [cents]”. Language weird, return to grunts.
(I wrote that when groggy, but my thinking was that it’s supposed to be read aloud/verbally, so you’d ignore the $ and say the cents. My brain was still asleep.)
About $3.50
E: also why do we say “three dollars and fifty cents” when it’s clearly “dollar three [and] fifty [cents]”. Language weird, return to grunts.
Because it’s translation, not transliteration.