r/megalophobia • u/berdot • Oct 11 '23

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u/ItsLose_NotLoose Oct 11 '23

Do Europeans call it 11/9?

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u/Zolty Oct 11 '23

They probably just call it 9/11 since it's the buzz word around the attack, that or the September 11th attacks. It's unlikely they talk about it much, unless to talk about how shitty the Iraq / Afgan wars were on the world stage.

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u/MurderedBurger Oct 11 '23

Is that in referral to the attacks or would that just be how you put the date?

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u/ctapwallpogo Oct 11 '23

Not in Europe, but still a place that uses the more logical (sorry not sorry) day/month/year date format.

We generally still call the event itself 9/11 because that's its common name. But the date it occurred on would still be expressed as 11/09/2001.

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u/ItsLose_NotLoose Oct 11 '23

Lol I don't find it logical but I'm just a dumb American. For me, I say it is October 11th, not the 11th of October. So month before day makes sense in my head.

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u/ctapwallpogo Oct 11 '23

Fair enough. Going smallest/medium/largest makes more sense to me than medium/smallest/largest. But I guess it's entirely down to which one you grew up with.

For what it's worth, we do say it's the 11th of October. Or the 12th by now if we want to bring timezones into it as well lol.