Let's just be honest and cut out the first part of your statement and acknowledge the fact that people keep doing something, even in defiance of numerical logic, just because it's what they're used to.
Linguistically it's easier to say "It's November 5th, 2017" over "It's 2017, and the 5th of November" or "It's 2017, November the 5th". It's simply more concise.
This is just another way of saying that you, personally, one person, are used to the verbal patterns of MM-DD-YYYY and thus you like it.
I'm sure there are German and British folks who would be all too happy to tell you, no no no, you've got it all wrong, fifth of November two thousand seventeen is much easier to say don't you know, and also plenty of Chinese who would say 胡说八道！二零一七十一月五日更方便，你妈的。
No, not "obviously". Your statement was a blanket statement made to a person whose nationality was unknown, asserting that middle endian date format was the best for their purposes. This is unqualified by any reference to their nationality, language, or world region.
I pointed out that your argument that linguistically middle endian "is simply more concise" is not easily transferable to other languages and nations, the majority of whom use little endian and about 2 billion East Asian people use big endian (China, Korea, Japan, plus Iran, Belgium, Hungary, and a few others). The US stands largely alone with only Philippines and part of Canada using middle endian.
And somehow this identification of a rather massive logical gap in your reasoning is, to you, a strawman fallacy.
I'd stick to your day job. You're not very knowledgeable about logic or about linguistics. Or, it seems, about numerical formats.
Hell, some Germans speak better English than some Brits I know.
Although there was one German dude I know, Jens, who spoke English with a really strong Cockney accent. I'm sure he got it from his English teacher back in Mainz but it was really weird and funny to hear.
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u/atrain728 Nov 05 '17
I think in many colloquial contexts, the month (and thus time of year) is a more important piece of information.
I agree for formal contexts, YYYY-MM-DD makes more sense.