Got downvoted on lemmy.world for pointing out that if you murderer people indiscriminately you're going to end up killing trans people.

There's only a small number of left-to-right languages where the percent sign officially comes before the number rather than after it, these include Basque as well as various Turkic languages including Turkish itself. In Basque, the word for "percent" is ehuneko; in Turkish, yüzde; and these words come before rather than after the number. Arabic also writes %100 but this is because the language is written right-to-left; Hebrew writes 100% despite being written right-to-left; and Farsi allows for both ٪١٠٠ and ١٠٠٪ interchangeably, apparently.

Aside from second-language speakers with the %100 languages as their mother tongues, in English it seems like the proscribed practice of writing the percent sign before the number rather than after it is actually by analogy with currency symbols — where English-speaking countries tend to put the currency symbol before the number despite in speech saying the name of the currency after the number.

So I try not to be too judgmental about typos like writing "%100" instead of "100%", after all I've myself had plenty of mix-ups with things like punctuation and special symbols, and I think probably most people have done similar things in one way or another at some point in their lives. There are a lot of different reasons why someone might make such a typo — not everyone is bound to memorize the whole Associated Press Stylebook or whatever, and not everyone who has done so is going to want to follow all of its prescriptions, anyways — so it's basically pointless to try to assign some sort of meaning or judgment to that kind of typo. I think it's better to focus on the positives, how people are creative and look for and extrapolate from patterns when writing — writing is after all a task which human beings did not naturally evolve to do, and where for the vast majority of human history only a small number of people could write at all.

All in all, it's better to focus on the meaning of the text, which if one reads between the lines like one's old English teacher told one to do way back when, amounts to that SupraMario at Lemmy Dot World is not merely a clown but is in point of fact the entire circus.