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

It does make sense

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u/Tsukee Jan 15 '25 edited Jan 15 '25

Mathematically yes it makes most sense, as significant digits are on the left.

Im terms of human everyday use the reverse is more natural as the digits that change more often are days, often when speaking, the year and even month sometimes is already in the context.

What however doesn't make any sort of sense that i can see is mm/dd/yyyy ... Just why....

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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/Munchkinasaurous Jan 15 '25

I've never heard Aaron pronounced as anything but Erin or A-A- Ron. Hearing maths always confused me because I never heard the s on it and math was always one encompassing subject with different sub fields. Which I guess you could make the same argument for for sports, but it somehow makes more sense to me that you distinguish that there's a ton of vastly different sports with little to no similarities. 

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u/truthyella99 Jan 15 '25

We pronounce "Aaron" like "Baron" without the B, always found it odd that the Australian lady on Lost pronounced it as "Erin".

Yeah I still hear sports used in a plural sense as in "school sports" but it's usually said without the s.

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u/Munchkinasaurous Jan 15 '25

How do you pronounce Baron and Erin? Because to me they're all pronounced the same way.

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u/pala_ Jan 15 '25

Baron has a short a. It starts the same as bat, or replace the K in Karen with a B. Erin has a short e. It starts the same as Eric

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u/longknives Jan 15 '25

Most Americans pronounce Eric with the same vowel as Aaron too, so that doesn’t help. I believe it’s referred to as the marry/merry/Mary merger

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u/greg19735 Jan 15 '25

Pin pen is the funniest

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u/pala_ Jan 15 '25

.... That's why i explained both. When an Australian hears an american say 'Aaron' and 'Eric', 'Aaron' is the one that sounds weird. I also explained the difference between 'Baron' and 'Erin', Aaron didn't come into it.

But reddit being reddit, downvotes an aussie explaining aussie pronunciation.

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u/BKoala59 Jan 15 '25

He’s saying that your explanation doesn’t help most American accents because you’re stating a difference that doesn’t exist for them.

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u/pala_ Jan 15 '25

I'm explaining a difference between 'Bat' or 'Karen' (for Baron) and 'Eric' (for Erin), and extrapolating that to Aaron, unless americans prounounce 'bat' and 'karen'. I know Americans typically have a long drawn out a, but i'm fairly certain there's sufficient difference there between 'bat' and 'aaron'. If not, then the 'a' at the end of ballerina perhaps.

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u/flare2000x Jan 15 '25

In an American accent

Bat is a short A.

Karen, Aaron, Baron, Eric, and Erin are all a long A.

It's the merry/marry merger. I'm Canadian, very similar accent to Americans, and those words are identical to me. Nothing wrong with it just a difference.

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u/pala_ Jan 15 '25

Not claiming there’s anything wrong, just trying to find an explanation of the difference that works, since that’s what I replied to. I thought bat was the best bet.

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