• YTG123
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        1 year ago

        Different languages have different conventions. For example, the standardized variety of my language allows 11/(0)9/2001, 11/(0)9/01, 11.(0)9.2001, 11.(0)9.01, 2001-09-11, 2001/09/11, 2001.09.11 (personally I usually use 11/09 without the year and 2001-09-11 with the year).

  • @[email protected]
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    431 year ago

    English speakers: In the first car of the first race in the first tournament.

    US: In the first race’s first car in the first tournament.

  • Blackout
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    1 year ago

    I’m so glad we all use 315/23 for the date. Much easier if you just leave out the month.

  • @captainlezbian
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    121 year ago

    I don’t want to hear shit about what order we write numbers in from a continent where numbers include one hundred nine and thirty to mean 139, or three twenties ten and nine for 79

    • @[email protected]
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      141 year ago

      If you’re so mad at Fr*nch and German numbers, don’t look up Danish numbers. Unless you can guess what “five and half five’s”. Did you guess 95? Why would you?

        • @[email protected]
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          61 year ago

          It’s a twenty based system. “Two’s” is 40, “three’s” is 60, …

          50 is “halfway to 60” so it’s “half three’s”, likewise “half four’s” for 70, “four’s” for 80 and “half five’s” for 90. 100 is its own word so “half five’s” exists but “five’s” doesn’t.

    • callyral [he/they]
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      1 year ago

      Seventeen is 7+10 (seven+teen) but twenty one is 20+1 (twenty+one)

      If English was more consistent, seventeen would be ten seven.

      • Black616Angel
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        61 year ago

        If it was really consistent, it would be something like onety seven but not really either, since it’s also not twoty seven.

        PS: Eleven would be onety one.

  • @DannyMac
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    121 year ago

    Extra fancy Winnie the Pooh: YYYY/MM/DD

    • @finestnothing
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      21 year ago

      I label all of my notes like ‘YYYYMMDD_some_title_here’ so they automatically sort by when I made them when sorted by name, or YYYYMMDDHHmm if the note won’t be getting a title (such as daily notes or notes that I made too quickly to care about titling)

  • @[email protected]
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    You all are so concerned about the formatting of the date, but I dont see any of you buying a new copy of a certain game to avoid Todd Howard’s curse

  • @BreadOven
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    21 year ago

    This didn’t age well (I guess I should have looked at it 5 days ago).

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        Ah, good point.

        Edit: I wasn’t trying to be mean or anything with my posts. Just wanted to be dumb haha. I hope no one took it the wrong way.