• @strawberrysocial
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    310 months ago

    I’ve noticed it being written like 9/11 instead of 911 a lot lately. Is this how it’s supposed to be or what has happened that’s making people add the slash now…

    • @frostysauce
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      1210 months ago

      The emergency phone number has always been written as 911. I have no idea why people are writing a phone number as a date suddenly.

    • @[email protected]
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      410 months ago

      No, these are people who are either incredibly dumb or have somehow never seen anyone write “911” down but have heard somone joking about “dialing nine eleven”

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      10 months ago

      It has always been 9/11 because it is a date. Some people use 911, but this can be confused for the emergency services phone number (also 911)

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          -210 months ago

          In the original post? Yeah, they meant 911 (the phone number)

      • @Cryophilia
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        910 months ago

        In this case they WERE referring to the phone number.

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          10 months ago

          Well…yeah, it’s what they meant, but how many phone numbers do you know of that have forward slashes?

          Might be an autocorrect thing though depending on the phone

          • @strawberrysocial
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            19 months ago

            You know, that’s a really good point! It probably has something to do with autocorrect.