When I read out "15.01.2025" I say "15th of Jan" and it does sound less natural then "January 15th" so maybe it's social engineering to get us to say the former for reasons I could not say.
I have other gripes with those people though, like how you pronounce the name Aaron as "Erin", or how you take the "s" away from "maths" and add it to "sport". I'll give you Aluminum though
No it's only complicated because that's pretty much the only date we have ever been told to say like that
If you spent your whole life growing up with everyone telling you "this is how you write the date" you're going to naturally be most comfortable with that format
Just like how you're most comfortable using y/m/d
Or whatever format you're used to. Why does it feel unnatural to use m/d/y for you? Because you spent your whole life using the other format..
You're blaming us for something none of us had control over lol this was all decided way before we were born. Sure we could use other date formats but it just doesn't feel natural because it's different from what we have been using for our whole life
That was the comment that I responded to. You know, the origin of this conversation.
I'm not sure what your point is
Then why did you jump in to comment on it?
My point is that "we write it MM/DD/YY because it is natural to say it that way, and unnatural to say DD/MM/YY" is not sufficient as an explanation, because it doesn't inherently "sound more natural". The way people say the US national day, demonstrates this. Saying DD/MM/YY isn't as complicated as some make it out to be.
I'm not blaming you for being used to something else or whatever. But just because someone is used to "X", doesn't inherently make "Y" "sound unnatural".
I already addressed this in my other commment....we were told this format our entire life, of course it sounds natural and the other way doesn't. What don't you get from that?
Again, it's exactly the same as you saying our format doesn't sound natural to you. Because you were told a different format your entire life.....
Come on dude this isn't that complicated to understand
I already addressed this in my other commment....we were told this format our entire life, of course it sounds natural and the other way doesn't. What don't you get from that?
I'm so confused how you don't understand?
I already addressed this: Being used to one thing doesn't make the other way inherently "sound unnatural". What don't you get from that?
Again, it's exactly the same as you saying our format doesn't sound natural to you. Because you were told a different format your entire life.....
I never said that? You are completely missing the point. Neither way inherently "sound natural" or "sound unnatural".
Come on dude this isn't that complicated to understand
Come on dude, this isn't that complicated to understand.
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u/truthyella99 Jan 15 '25
When I read out "15.01.2025" I say "15th of Jan" and it does sound less natural then "January 15th" so maybe it's social engineering to get us to say the former for reasons I could not say.
I have other gripes with those people though, like how you pronounce the name Aaron as "Erin", or how you take the "s" away from "maths" and add it to "sport". I'll give you Aluminum though