Cheques

[etherial]

One of my responsibilities this week (my direct boss being in Florida and all) is to write the company checks (but not sign them. boo hoo). This means I will be writing them out manually. I'm having difficulty if I should write them out in the manner I do, or in a more traditional fashion.

The differences between me and everybody else:

1. I write AD on all my christian calendar dates, or at least those that include the year, which would mean all the ones on these checks.

2. I write all my dollar amounts (the words, not the numerals) as mixed fractions. Thus, $150.50 would be One-hundred Fifty and a half dollars. The idea for this originated from the fact that I like writing out as much as I can, and that every check I've ever seen already has the word "dollars" printed on it, so it would be silly to write so it says "One-hundred fifty dollars and fifty cents dollars."

Comments

Re: On the Writing of Cheques

[etherial.livejournal.com]

Well, point 1 is more to identify which calendar I'm using than which milennium. Though it can be said that no one would make the mistake of misidentifying it as a Chinese or Hebrew date (thouse being the next two most frequently used calendars), I make it a point to put in this tiny reminder that we don't have to take the Christian view of anything if we don't want to, even something as inane as the passage of time. See my Illuminati Calendar post from a few weeks ago.

As for $47.85, that would be "Forty-seven and seventeen twentieths dollars" if you please.

Re: On the Writing of Cheques

[kadath.livejournal.com]

There's iconoclasty, and there's clarity. In this case, I'm unconvinced they overlap. That reducing fractions thing is just evil. As a former store clerk, I deliver a stinging virtual blow to your face.