Why do Americans write their dates down backwards?
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i find the americans being the only first world country in the world to be funny and the way they do it is hilarious because the section of their government has a copy of the metric absolutes and converts from real measurements to wrong measurements and that they have been converting to metric for over 20 years
but back on topic i was watching a case study of a murder that was committed in the us and the fact that american civilians write the date MM/DD/YY and soldiers write it DD/MM/YY (so they can work with other militaries because it is more precise and standard) helped them solve the case. the murderer wrote a note with the date on it ant pinned it to the victims door the victim was a civ and the murder was a soldier so they used the date difference to rule out a heap of suspects
so that's why american civilians write the date wrongly so they don't get blamed for murders committed by soldiers
but if you dont like that reason i have another one
america is a super power yes?
and all super powers are backwards nations yes?
therefore americans do loads of stuff wrongly because they live in a super power
and americian spelling really gets on my nerves i have been in the middle of several programs wondering why i have thease silly bugs and i go through the code and eventually i have mixed up the languages and instead of using the American spelling i have used the English spelling
but back on topic i was watching a case study of a murder that was committed in the us and the fact that american civilians write the date MM/DD/YY and soldiers write it DD/MM/YY (so they can work with other militaries because it is more precise and standard) helped them solve the case. the murderer wrote a note with the date on it ant pinned it to the victims door the victim was a civ and the murder was a soldier so they used the date difference to rule out a heap of suspects
so that's why american civilians write the date wrongly so they don't get blamed for murders committed by soldiers
but if you dont like that reason i have another one
america is a super power yes?
and all super powers are backwards nations yes?
therefore americans do loads of stuff wrongly because they live in a super power
and americian spelling really gets on my nerves i have been in the middle of several programs wondering why i have thease silly bugs and i go through the code and eventually i have mixed up the languages and instead of using the American spelling i have used the English spelling
I love that picture, but disagree with you, I personally find the imperial system ridiculous. I wish we used the metric system over here, that would have made math class a lot easier.bluemistake2 said:
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It makes it easier to arrange data in computing as you can do it by month rather than each day then the month.aps1984 said:I was just wondering because Americans always say the UK is stupid for spelling things like 'colour' in that way. I actually agree because there is no need for the 'u'. but then I was like wtf hypocrisy! they put the dates in the most stupid order: month,day,year! I honestly don't know how you can even look yourselves in the mirror
Pretty much. I forget when, but in the last century or so, the UK and most of Europe decided to get up all in arms about standardizing things, and redid many of the spellings and orders. Common US parlance never changed.Omega Hunter 9 said:
This is why, for example, the OED still insists that -ize is more correct (it uses Greek? instead of Latinate? suffices).
However, the US military uses a modified ISO style dating, which uses DMY.
Um .. that's why you DON'T say '1st January', which would be ranking the month instead of naming its days. You say 'the 1st of January", which is correct grammar. 'January First' is a structure only really used in that context and as such should be considered an abbreviation. I am not using that against it. Use it, if it the way it is done in your country, but I can't see how any literate person, upon hearing 'the First of January', would call another a 'retard' for saying so. I don't think you need to worry about such poeple.Rutawitz said:
I just follow the standard international usageas much as possible; metric system, day,month, year, celzius for temp and I live in NYC; I just stay away from archaic measurements that many Americans use. Majority of coworkers and people I know have no problem with the metric system, it's easier and better so I do not understand why do they still teach in schools the old system? In one of the hospitals (Coney Island) I worked at, they used day/month/year for official paperwork but now I work at another hospital (Methodist hospital in Brooklyn) and they use archaic or backward system of month/day/year, so I'm stuck with that backwardness but at least I do not have to enter those numbers with my pen (as I would feel stupid doing so), instead the computer charting system is setup for automatic writing data...
My child goes in one of the schools Park Slope Brooklyn and from the first grade those teachers still teach archaic measurements. They also teach metric system, but why not teach the new generations simply only metric system. This way America will have better generation of people growing up...I don't want to elaborate on that now
My child goes in one of the schools Park Slope Brooklyn and from the first grade those teachers still teach archaic measurements. They also teach metric system, but why not teach the new generations simply only metric system. This way America will have better generation of people growing up...I don't want to elaborate on that now