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In Celcius, water only freezes at 0 and boils at 100 in specific parts of the world, so it's not even useful for that. Better to use the system in which "degrees" actually has something to do with angle measures, like Farenhiet.
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Mu Zeta posted:Exactly. Same reason why words like fortnight and stone for weight shouldn't exist. I agree but i have it baked into my mind that i used to be 15 stone exactly and now I'm 11 1/2 and you'll never take that away
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I’m for the USA flipping the Earth the bird by going FULL metric including for the date. Yeehaw happy Fifth of Messidor everyone!
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EmmyOk posted:This is the saddest poo poo this is the funniest thing i've read all day. thank you
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One of the few things America does correctly is numerical date order. "Month, day, year" can be written out strictly in numerals and, if a list of dates is formatted so, can be arranged alphabetically to be in perfect chronological order. It also gives you a sense of the time of year from the very start of the string, instead of three digits in.
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Tubgoat posted:One of the few things America does correctly is numerical date order. "Month, day, year" can be written out strictly in numerals and, if a list of dates is formatted so, can be arranged alphabetically to be in perfect chronological order. Doesn't America do year/day/month? Clearly year-month-day is best 
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I still use a sundial. *looks at sun* Yup, its def day time.
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day time? gamer time. the best time of the day, which a lot of people disagree with.
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pidan posted:Doesn't America do year/day/month? I’ve seen that occasionally but 99% of the time it’s MM/DD/YYYY
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America is typically month day year but not always. Internationally it's more often day month year. This if course is one of the fifty thousand reasons time is a gigantic bitch to deal with in programming as not even America is consistent on that one. If you just write 2/1/2018 then you have to know the order that's being written in to know if that's February first or January second.
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I can accept americans using fahrenheit, its not for me but do what you will. Day-Month-Year is a logical progression though and makes much more sense
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Jan 23, 2019 21:55
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YYYY-MM-DD is natively sortable and is therefore objectively superior.
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It’s in the order of most pertinent to least pertinent information. The month of the year is the most immediately useful information as it immediately narrows down the season, fiscal quarter, etc. the specific day is also important but only makes sense in the context of the month it’s in, hence it comes next. Lastly is the year which, while meaningful in the context of history, is the least immediately useful piece of information in most use cases of the full date
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christmas boots posted:It’s in the order of most pertinent to least pertinent information. Thank you for this! A much clearer explanation.
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month day year is also how people talk. For exampleToxicSlurpee posted:If you just write 2/1/2018 then you have to know the order that's being written in to know if that's February first or January second. ToxicSlurpee says February first because that's way more natural than saying the first of February.
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The euro styling fits better in some non english languages. In french you say le 23 janvier 2019 or whatever
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Tubgoat posted:Thank you for this! A much clearer explanation. I was largely making it up as I went but it actually made some degree of sense imo
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Gripweed posted:month day year is also how people talk. No, that's just how you personally talk. My birthday is on the 21st of April and that's how I like it 
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Gripweed posted:month day year is also how people talk. For example Like in that famous American song, Born on July 4.
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America does guns and porn really well. Everything else, they do quite badly
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Like in that famous American song, Born on July 4. "The Fourth of July" is the name of the holiday.
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Collapsing Farts posted:America does guns and porn really well. Everything else, they do quite badly your avatar disagrees with you
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Gripweed posted:"The Fourth of July" is the name of the holiday. If we're going to get pedantic, shouldn't that be "Independence Day"? "The Fourth of July" is a colloquialism. And the fact that "colloquial" means "used in ordinary or familiar conversation; not formal or literary" is kind of telling. aardwolf has a new favorite as of 23:15 on Jan 23, 2019 |
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Jan 23, 2019 23:12
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I think the English are far too afraid of the letter Z
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spit on my clit posted:your avatar disagrees with you That's the new default, they didn't choose it.
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Tubgoat posted:That's the new default, they didn't choose it. that's really loving funny. man, i forgot this site could be funny
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spit on my clit posted:that's really loving funny. man, i forgot this site could be funny Then you oughtta hang out in CSPAM!
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Tubgoat posted:Then you oughtta hang out in CSPAM! i refuse to visit D&D or any D&D subforums. those places are where comedy and not-wanting-to-kill-yourself go to die
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Jan 24, 2019 00:56
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aardwolf posted:If we're going to get pedantic, shouldn't that be "Independence Day"? "The Fourth of July" is a colloquialism. I’m telling you that in american parlance, July third and July fifth are what you will almost always hear. The fourth of July is the only day routinely referred to that way. The xth of y is used in a more formal register. PHUO: only idiots and college freshmen quote the dictionary
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I’m telling you that in american parlance, July third and July fifth are what you will almost always hear. The fourth of July is the only day routinely referred to that way. The xth of y is used in a more formal register. Webster's dictionary defines pedantic as " https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3798595 "
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christmas boots posted:Webster's dictionary defines pedantic as " https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3798595 " he's right
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spit on my clit posted:i refuse to visit D&D or any D&D subforums. those places are where comedy and not-wanting-to-kill-yourself go to die
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spit on my clit posted:i refuse to visit D&D or any D&D subforums. those places are where comedy and not-wanting-to-kill-yourself go to die Please start posting in CSPAM. It would be amazing.
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Gripweed posted:Please start posting in CSPAM. It would be amazing.
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Tubgoat posted:CSPAM feels about D&D as you do, D&D posters and mods are loving brimming with brainworms. this fairytale wonderland you speak of could not exist. i have to see it right now. you lied to me, you have betrayed me, i am fed up with dis waurl spit on my clit has a new favorite as of 03:49 on Jan 24, 2019 |
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spit on my clit posted:this fairytale wonderland you speak of could not exist. i have to see it right now.
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Tubgoat posted:One of the few things America does correctly is numerical date order. "Month, day, year" can be written out strictly in numerals and, if a list of dates is formatted so, can be arranged alphabetically to be in perfect chronological order. 12/3/2018 4/7/2017 6/2/2019 9/14/2018 If you want them to sort properly you have to write them YYYY-MM-DD, which no one does but everyone should. 2017-04-07 2018-09-14 2018-12-03 2019-06-02 christmas boots posted:It’s in the order of most pertinent to least pertinent information. If you write the date YYYY-MM-DD then it follows the convention of literally every other number of having the larger value to the left. Gripweed posted:month day year is also how people talk. For example
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Tiggum posted:Everyone thinks in English in their heads, foreigners just translate it into their own language before speaking. Speaking English is just natural. this is completely correct. everyone naturally knows english as a baby, but we are too stupid to realize it. as we grow to the age when we would start speaking fluently, some idiot (english or non-english) starts blabbering gibberish at us, completely screwing up our flawless dictionary and replaces it with some mangled version of our perfect language. this is true of every language. the americans and brits in particular call their language "english" in an attempt to say that theirs is the closest to the baby's natural dictionary, like slapping your dick on the table to establish dominance. we should ban speaking so that our children grow up speaking their innate unified language, and allow the new age to overtake our old, infantile ways of operating. #babytalk
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Tiggum posted:This is like saying "Everyone thinks in English in their heads, foreigners just translate it into their own language before speaking. Speaking English is just natural." Foreigners actually speak English all the time, they just switch to a foreign language when Americans are nearby. Haven't you ever seen The Hunt For Red October?
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Tiggum posted:No it can't. That doesn't work at all.  A fair cop. It occurs to me I've never had to list dates together from multiple years.  christmas boots has a MUCH better justification for it.
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