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⌈ Secret Post #2953 ⌋

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Comments

Re: America

[philstar22]

This I also agree with. Month first does make more sense. And the lack of the Oxford comma in European legal documents has been a particular frustration of mine in legal research. It just doesn't make as much sense most of the time.

Re: America

[ketita]

Why does month first make more sense? I've been trying to figure this out and have no idea.
Day/month/year makes sense because you're going from the small to the big, but m/d/y?

Re: America

[philstar22]

It is mostly a personal preference thing, but when you write it out rather than short form, I think it makes more sense to have the word first and then the two numbers. And then it makes sense to use the same order for both full and short form.

Re: America

[ketita]

Hmm, that's true, if you're talking English. Many other languages say d/m/y in the spoken form, too.
If it's written out then I agree it makes sense to write it the way it's spoken... still, I find it terribly confusing since afaik Americans are one of the few countries who do the m/d/y thing.

Re: America

[philstar22]

I don't disagree. America tends to be weird and do our own thing. Just personal preference. I can't speak for other languages, I just think it makes more sense for me personally to do it D/M/Y in English.

Re: America

[ketita]

haha well lucky you're in good company! Got another three hundred million or so people doing it your way XD

Re: America

[philstar22]

:) I do have to pay attention, though, because I do a lot of international research, and if the date is low enough then sometimes I forget that day is first there and cite it wrong.

Re: America

[ketita]

Haha yeah, I've gotten tripped up by that a time or two myself.
Or the inevitable conversations where somebody will be like "It was 110 degrees today" and my response is ???
Makes the world a more interesting place, I guess. It's still less obnoxious than those people who insist on driving on the wrong side of the road, imo.

(actually there is a chance I'll be moving to the States next year and I'm a little terrified)

Re: America

[philstar22]

The two weeks I spent in England was pretty terrifying myself. I will say that to me personally the American way makes a tiny bit more sense just because more people in the world are right handed and because I think it is slightly safer for pedestrians (keeping right seems to be an instinct even in countries that drive on the left). That being said, both ways seem to work just fine, and I don't think there is any real right or wrong to any of these differences (except measurements where to me metric does seem to be more right because regularity seems important in measurement). Just different ways of doing things, and we all feel more comfortable with what we were brought up with.

Re: America

[ketita]

Oh, I wasn't being serious. Obviously it's (mostly) arbitrary at the end of the day, but I think that out of all the difficulties in going from country to country, being secure in immigrants/tourists knowing how to drive without too much confusion is an added bonus. So I think that there is a distinct advantage to everybody driving in approximately the same manner, for general safety's sake.