Comments on The French Corner: 5 Punctuation Errors You Never Have to Make Again

Yes, the French (and Germans, etc,) have largely a...

2007-08-19T10:55:00.000-07:00

Yes, the French (and Germans, etc,) have largely adopted the international format of using a space to separate thousands. Unfortunately, we in the UK are behind the times on this (even though my text books from 1969 adopted this format)

Thanks for adding these! =) PS Great name! ;-)

2007-08-17T11:50:00.000-07:00

Thanks for adding these! =) PS Great name! ;-)

I agree with all of them except #3 - I've always s...

2007-08-16T23:39:00.000-07:00

I agree with all of them except #3 - I've always seen numbers written with a space. So 4,321.00 becomes 4 321,00.

Another interesting factoid is that they put the money sign after the amount, ie. 4 321,00€ instead of $4,231.00

PS. The French get so confused by our use of the pound sign to mean "number"!