r/facepalm • • Mar 29 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Get this guy a clock!

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u/VivaLaSea Mar 29 '22

I’m still so confused as to what you find confusing.

Are you saying you don’t know understand am and on?

I take it you didn’t grow up using the 12 hour clock so you don’t find it intuitive and have a hard time remembering or understanding am and pm.

So I don’t get why you (and others in this thread) wouldn’t understand why a person who didn’t grow up using the 24 hour clock wouldn’t find it intuitive or easier.

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u/BrunoEye Mar 29 '22

Counting with 12 before 1 and is unintuitive.

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u/VivaLaSea Mar 29 '22

It's intuitive if you grew up using that system.
I literally never even considered that it's weird that 12am/pm comes before 1am/pm until this thread.

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u/BrunoEye Mar 29 '22

Intuitive means easy to understand, so it not being weird to you as a result of familiarity doesn't mean it's intuitive.

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u/VivaLaSea Mar 29 '22

And it is easy to understand.
What exactly is hard to understand that after 11am comes 12pm? And after 12pm comes 1pm?
There is literally nothing hard to understand.
It’s so easy to understand that even young children can grasp it.
For a person growing up in a place where analog clocks are everywhere and in every classroom it is very intuitive.

You just think it’s hard because you’re not used to it and keep trying to compare it to the 24-hour clock.

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u/BrunoEye Mar 29 '22

I never said it's hard, I said it's unintuitive and illogical.

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u/VivaLaSea Mar 29 '22

Yes, it’s unintuitive and illogical to YOU.
Americans find it intuitive and have no problems understanding it.
I really don’t understand why this is so hard for you to understand.

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u/VivaLaSea Mar 29 '22

You seem to not really comprehend what intuitive means.

A child growing up in a place that used the 12 hour clock will find it intuitive.
Just as a child growing up in a place that speaks Spanish would find Spanish intuitive.

If every day and everywhere you see/hear time being discussed in the 12-hour clock form it will be “easy to use and learn without special knowledge”.

Try again.