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If I'm not mistaken it has to do with which direction text was written in. Ancient greek was originally written right-to-left like for example Arabic is today. It was also written in boustrophedon style which is when you alternate direction each line and mirror the letters too. Then some day Athens standardized left-to-right for some reason (including the flipped letters), and the romans took after during their time. Correct me if I'm wrong here. I am no historian unless we're talking Middle Earth.

They all might be dylexsia- Dyslexia

Absolutely. And many have characters not listed here, like Ł, Ó, Ś, ẞ, Ç, Ï, Æ and many many others

My childhood illustrated dictionary had alphabetical evolution pictorials at the start of each lettered section, and I was *obsessed,* poring over them again and again. Just for fun, Hawai'ian uses 5 vowels A, E, I, O, U, and only 8 consonants, H, K, L, M, N, P, W, and ' a special glottal stop, also known as (') okina.

Norwegian doesnt use C, W, X or Z. Plus we have some letter that aren't listed, like æ ø å or ô

While others have additional characters, like the polish ó, ś and ł or the german ä ö ü and ß

$2 to 4$ to produce, as it is written on the bottle. Add to this other costs: transportation, maintain cold chain during transport and stock, margin for producers/distributor/reseller (salaries, taxes...)... I think $8 to 10$ is probably fair EDIT: I just talk about the price, not the other problem: "who will pay for it"

Except for one country all have universal healthcare, so the costs would not be on the patient.

So, $7-8 is cool, but $12 is a disgrace? You're being ridiculous.

Canada is currently working on making insulin and birth control free

Why? It's reasonable. Not cheap, but reasonable.

I’d say we should be ashamed here in the US, but the ones dictating price have no shame. It’s “We the people” that pay the price for their greed.

I think that in Italy it's also deductible

The prises can be misleading. While it is true, that it costs roughly 11$ in Germany for instance, it depends on what type you have, what preference you have and if your Doctor prescribes it. It can be 0€ for you personally to pay, because your insurance will pay it.

I only wish we were Canada.

It's not massively higher than even the best ones. Also bear in mind cost of living and average income in Canada versus other countries. Canada -v- Australia for example, income is pretty similar but Canada has a lower cost of living. So $12 in Canada may in fact be better than $7 in Australia.

How do you think I feel about the USA?!

Still better than my country. The USA is horrible when it come to healthcare

Still way cheaper than america 😓

yes, but even at $12 a vial people wouldn't die because they couldn't afford it. The USA are the true villains here

The US is the embarrassing country with our health care.

Canada soon will be selling it's medication to Florida..it's making head lines.

Agreed its Totally fuct up.

It is

That's why I always write 1 July 2024 instead.

This is why I use numbers for the day and write out the month. I learned from watching a friend being unable to cash a check in the US because she wrote the date as dd/mm/yy.

Whenever possible, I write out the month.

Try working in IT - even from one vendor you have at least 3 date formats the worse is where the year is two digits with the 12 of feb 2023 being 23-02-12, 02-12-23 and 12-02-23. It was way worse in 2012

I'm Canadian, and I think the guessing game of deciding if the numbers mean February 1st or January 2nd keeps life exciting!!

Canada also does a mix for its measurements. We claim to be metric but we are some where in the middle

Ugh this must be fun

It's ironic that you try to be polite by adapting to US standards, thereby messing things up even more for you, whereas supposedly it will be impossible to get the US to adhere to international standards when trading internationally.

So much so I got confused when I was at Walmart, in my Canadian home town, and saw Checking instead of Chequing on the debit machine. Got worried there was something wrong the machine was having to check for. However, I'm programmed to write dates month, day, year. When I see dates like 04/06/24, I have to ask for clarification. Other than that, I see why learning the imperial system lost me in math class, but the metric system I did a lot better.

Dates in Canada are a nightmare. You never know if 02/11 is 2 Nov or Feb 11. Officially it is always D/M/Y or Y/M/D but we have a lot of idiots. I always spell out the month in letters. If using numbers always use yyyy-MM-dd. The DND always writes 16/02/24 as 16 Feb 24 or 16 Feb 2024. I would bring back flogging for writing a numerical date in the US format.

Québec is in Canada and we are rest of the world team, Anglo Canada has it all mixed for sleeping with the US.

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I always write out the month. 17 Feb 2024

That's why I always write the month in words (e.g., June 12, 2000 instead of 06/11/2000).

I find it fascinating how the US holds out against the rest of the world regarding dates, weights and measures (it doesn't even have 'proper' imperial measures for pints, quarts and gallons!), let alone English spelling.

I always admired the Russian system, as I understand it: 4 October 2024 (or October 4th, 2024, depending on your preference) is 4-X-2024. June 28th is 28-VI-2024. Roman numerals for the month, regardless of location. Still, my default preference for work is 4-Oct-24 and 28-Jun-2024.

"Not quite "arbitrary" Zero degrees Fahrenheit was chosen because it was the freezing point of a saturated salt brine solution," - so arbitrary then...

I personally prefer to walk in the dark without any street lights or in very dim lights...because then my eyes are adjusted to the dark and it's much easier to spot someone hiding in the dark if there is no difference in lighting between the person and me. The regular street lamps basically just light my path and me and make me easy to spot while making everything outside the path harder to spot, which doesn't make me feel safe *at all*.