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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by M137 to c/[email protected]
 

That's $3 for 15 eggs. Sadly not free-range, only cage-free.

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[–] Majorllama 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What is that ":-" symbol next to the number? I thought they used "kr" as the symbol for their money?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It's short for 35:00, so the price is 35 kronor and 0 ören

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (3 children)

: is an interesting separator that I would only think of for time

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I'm just working off context here, can't really defend the Swedes. It seems a little unusual to me too.

But I can't complain too much, because there are plenty of weirdoes in my country who use single dots for time, which I find even worse. Especially because the dot is also often a decimal separator. So depending on context 9.25 can be 09:25 or 9 hours and 15 minutes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I like to keep things simple and don't use any separator at all for time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

i've made a post about his before, but it sort of used to be an öre separator. it's just that people have forgotten, so now you get stuff like "23,50:-"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

they use :- instead of currency symbol because then you don't think of it as money, you are more likely to happily pay a bigger price

[–] Majorllama 2 points 3 days ago

Ah that makes sense. Like the other guy said that just makes me think of time lol.