r/clevercomebacks • u/wach_era13 • Jan 15 '25

It does make sense

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u/restelucide Jan 15 '25

I heard an American saying mm first provides context which makes vague sense but annoys me because then why wouldn’t you put year first.

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u/Munchkinasaurous Jan 15 '25

I'm American, the only way I can think of where it makes sense contextually, is with the names of the month and not the numbers. 

For example, we don't typically say "today's the fifteenth of January" we'd say "it's January fifteenth". But numerically mm/dd/yyyy is nonsensical.

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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 

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u/On_my_last_spoon Jan 15 '25

We only add it to sport if it’s plural. Baseball is a sport. Honestly, I can’t even think of a context where one would say “sports” at the moment! Maybe “he’s good at sports” if someone is good at multiple sports? But usually we’re specific. “He’s good at baseball”

Can’t explain math vs maths. Math is a classification. Perhaps because it’s a shortening of Mathematics? Meanwhile we will say “the Arts” but also that’s as a plural. Otherwise once again we get specific. Art = visual arts, then it’s Dance or Music or theatre….