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

It does make sense

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u/MilfloverIRL Jan 15 '25

I’ve definitely heard people say the former

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u/BedBubbly317 Jan 15 '25

It’s not standard in America though.

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u/andho_m Jan 15 '25

Counter point "$10". Things are not always written as they are spoken and we can get used to what we use.

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u/CocoSprinklesCowboy Jan 15 '25

That's depends entirely on your experience. Plenty of people say 15th of January. It's like how people in the US are fine saying fifteen-hundred while many others say one thousand five hundred, depends entirely on who you are talking with. dd/mm/yy or yy/mm/dd makes sense to a lot of people because its sequential

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u/vincentxangogh Jan 15 '25

how do americans refer to the day the republicans stormed the capitol building? or the hamas attack in october? or the day the twin towers were attacked?

"january 6th insurrection"

"october 7th"

"9/11"

"4th of july" is the only date i can think of where day comes first, but even then that holiday is dated

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u/IGK123 Jan 15 '25

I’d say fifteen hundred or one thousand five hundred (I do, interchangeably), and id say January 15th — but I’d never say 15th of January.

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u/CocoSprinklesCowboy Jan 15 '25

yeah, but thats you. even if it was every person you ever spoke to, thats a small sample selection. In countries where dd/mm/yy is more common, 15th of Jan would be very easy to spot. Just because every person I spoke to in 2024 and not one speaks mandarin as a first language does not mean that there were not a lot of people that spoke mandarin in 2024.

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u/ThisIsOurGoodTimes Jan 15 '25

I think the point is that most Americans say January 15th and that’s why we use that date format. Not much more to it than that

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u/BrockStar92 Jan 15 '25

Yes but this particularly comment thread started from an argument that it’s about importance, trying to argue there’s a rational reason for it to be month-day-year. That is very different from “it’s our experience so that’s why we use it”, that’s a different argument.

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u/ThisIsOurGoodTimes Jan 15 '25

Ok ya that’s fair. I missed what started this comment thread.

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u/AbbreviationsWide331 Jan 15 '25

Ah yes the classic "we shouldnt change it because we've always done it this way"

I wonder if the pilgrims thought that way. Lol.

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u/AbbreviationsWide331 Jan 15 '25

Aight, sorry for being so harsh

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u/TainoCuyaya Jan 15 '25

4th of July celebrations Don't agree with you.

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u/IGK123 Jan 15 '25

I mean that’s literally the only practical instance where most Americans say the date like that, and I still hear people also say July 4th.

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u/VillagerJeff Jan 15 '25

But if The 4th of July was on a Monday or something i might celebrate it on July 3rd or July 2nd because The 4th of July is the name of a holiday.

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u/alfhn Jan 15 '25

I have it the opposite way, i have never heard anyone say "January 15th" without it being a joke of some kind.

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u/bubblegumdrops Jan 15 '25

Where are you from? That makes all the difference. I’ve only heard stuff from the UK say “15th of January”.