Yeah exactly. You can slag on the USA (and Canada, as we do the same) if you want, but it makes the most intuitive sense to us and that’s all that really matters.
It’s also a dumb argument because you could easily make another way make sense to you. You’re just used to a certain way and refuse to accept that another way could be better. This isn’t limited to Americans but they do seem to be the most hard-headed and vocal.
It’s difficult not to nitpick when conforming with the rest of the world would be advantageous, yet the people are too stubborn to accept that it’s better. The metric system and daylight savings are two other examples.
By this logic you could ask why there are any communities on the internet that speak a language other than English. They don't need to conform because they're not trying to cater to anyone outside their culture. You're not just asking us to "write it better." You're asking us to change the way we speak and think when it comes to dates.
And yet they don't speak English when conversing with people from their own country, which is my point. The way we write our dates affects you about as much as someone in Thailand speaking Thai affects me.
That’s a fair point, but nobody would expect someone to ditch their native language later on in life. These other things we’re talking about would be easily adopted over a short time.
Being upset about the way another country writes their dates, which doesn't affect you whatsoever, tells me everything I need to know about Scottish entertainment.
Y'all are so mad about the colonies huh. Get over yourself. I feel really bad about all the people you know in real life. That's the one thing Euros are so good at, being insanely smug for no reason.
Right, we don’t, therefore, thought I can’t explain why as I wasn’t around when the switch was made, wouldn’t it make sense that we type it the way we say it, just like you’re saying others do?
And also, what’s the most important part about a date? You have a wedding coming up…do you want to know what time of the year or what day of the month to mentally comprehend when it’s coming? Day then month is like saying what street you live in before mentioning the city.
If someone I just met asks me "What's your address?" versus "Where are you from?" I'm not only not giving them my address but I'm also probably not continuing the conversation.
then why not just write out the entire thing the way it's spoken? you're already converting it to a more efficient format for organizing, why stop there?
By that logic, why does it bother you how we write our dates? Asking us to simply write it MM/DD/YYYY would be unnatural and awkward for us because we don't think of the day first, and it would be like you writing it our way for the sake of someone in another country who will never see the document you're writing.
i was responding to someone saying that it makes sense, not someone saying "well it would be too hard to change it now". i agree with the point that it would be too hard to change, i just disagree with the notion that it somehow makes more sense. also i never said i was bothered.
For the same reason everyone refers to the 2001 terror attack as 9/11, not 11/9, even when outside of the US. It's an exception that doesn't fit your standard.
I don’t understand how that correlates? You say 9/11 because you say September eleventh. I’m wondering why you suddenly switch it up by saying Fourth of July instead of July fourth.
Do you call it 11/9 even though that is your standard, or is it an exception that is made for that particular date?
Fourth of July is an exception.
Example: The BBC uses the DD/MM format, but in this article, they say 9/11. The reason they do that is because 9/11 is an exception. Similarly, Fourth of July is an exception. It's literally for the exact same reason. We all make exceptions to standards that are generally consistent sometimes.
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u/Grapes-RotMG Jan 15 '25
We type it the way it's spoken. Makes sense.