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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Jokes on you, I'm too dumb to get it!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

But putting the day before the month is wrong.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure that iso standard of yours specifies using what you call military time, or 24 hour time system, which USA doesn't use widely, so even they don't use this standard

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

This... this is why we have no friends, brain:)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

What's the 14th month?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah, that makes me want to celebrate my birthday more

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago

You'd confuse the Americans.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Not in America it ain't. Nobody fucking puts the day before the month.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Remind me again what your national day is called?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

July 4th, or the 4th OF July, or just Independence Day. No one calls it 4 July.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

4th OF July,

So date first, then the month?

You don't read 1/2 as "1slash2" do you? You read it as "half", don't you? You don't read 3/4 as "three four" do you? You read it as "three quarters" or "three fourths".

Because we know how to conjugate numbers from context. Like say you finish 3. in a race. Would you read "3." as "three" or "third"?

(It's quite ironic how often I end up having to teach Americans English, lol.)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (3 children)

say you finish 3. in a race

Who would even type it that way? When talking about position, the suffix isn't ignored, either in text or speech.

As for fractions, they are just that; fractions. Divisible portions of a whole, so different rules apply to them. They can be in the plural sense as in two halves, or 3 quarters. But you don't have a plural dates of the month, unless you're counting multiple years. And in that case it's month first. Like, if you were comparing this year to other years, you wouldn't say "this was better than the last couple 4ths of July". You'd say, "this was better than the last couple of July 4ths"

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 months ago (4 children)

But then we'd have to deal with the savage barbarism of writing it with the day before the month.

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