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Originally posted by Asher
The problem is how they're read.
mm-dd-yy makes more sense for Americans because days are described as, say "April 1st, 2003" rather than "1 April, 2003", which sounds just...ridiculous.
Originally posted by Starchild
In what way does "1st of April, 2003" sound any more ridiculous than "April 1st, 2003"?
Who do you know that, when asked the date, says "Oh, it's 1st of April!" as opposed to "It's April 1st!" Simplicity is best, and the "of" is totally unneccessary. It's a whole word no one need say.
Originally posted by Apocalypse
I agree with the slut here
I told you the dates on AIM, I didn't expect you to broadcast them to everyone on Poly...
As far as people here are concerned, I'm a hermit.
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Originally posted by Sir Ralph
Actually, both in German and Russian "First World War and Second World War" are the right order of words. Besides, I don't see what this has to do with dates.
Same in French, as well as the French order of words in dates is dd-mm-yy (still more rational than the jam in use in the US, even though it is not perfect).
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Who do you know that, when asked the date, says "Oh, it's 1st of April!" as opposed to "It's April 1st!"
Me. I tend to use both, it just depends what comes out first. I think dd-mm-yyyy is best, because it's from smallest to biggest. And GS: Euro's messing up the date? IIRC, we had it first, and Americans decided to change it. Although I could be wrong
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Originally posted by Asher
I told you the dates on AIM, I didn't expect you to broadcast them to everyone on Poly...
As far as people here are concerned, I'm a hermit.
Hey, I didn't tell anyone why you were a slut...you did that just now.
Come on, people change...you don't have to be a hermit here forever.
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Originally posted by Oerdin
Ahh, but you see neither German or Russian nor even French are the de facto world language so guess who's going to win in this dispute?
Nope, that would be English. And you know what we use over here. Although many would argue that their isn't a world language, since we still all speak our own, and English still isn't the most popular IIRC.
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"April third" is ungramatical, at least if you're intending for the quantifier to be a component of the month. You don't say "the highjumper third attempt", you say "the highjumper's third attempt" or "the third attempt of the highjumper", ie. "April's third" would work, but then we don't use months that way. So language favours the europeans.
I still think they're wrong, because obviously the most natural way is to do it like time or weight or length, largest unit first, ie. yy-mm-dd. AFAIK sweden is the only country that has it standardised this way. I'm born in 810610 (Ã¥ttiett nollsex tio) myself.
So is she Second Elizabeth, or Elizabeth the Second?
Oh, you're introducting another word now, "the"? Which is shorter, "the" or "of"?
Another european advantage- if you want to clarify the number of the month while speaking you can do so, ie. "third of the fourth". This is clearly impossible using the American system.
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