Post #293,987
10/1/07 4:39:39 PM
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It follows the spoken form.
July 1st, 2007 -> 07-01-2007
No mystery there. Not convenient from a computer standpoint, but logical enough when you look at where it came from. Not many people say "The first of July, 2007" or "2007 in July on the 1st".
Regards,
-scott anderson
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Post #294,015
10/2/07 2:37:26 AM
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Well, the rest of us find your spoken form equally silly.
You may not say "The first of July, 2007", but as Alex' Wikipedia quote shows(*), you DO say it the sensible way around when it comes to the fourth.
You *could* just as well do that for the first, and all the other days of the year, too.
Or do you have any particular reason to *say* it your silly way around?
Naah, thought so.
(*): Which we knew before, of course, from all the BeepBash threads if nothing else.
[link|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode|Christian R. Conrad]
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Post #294,020
10/2/07 3:49:02 AM
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Sure, it's a funnel sort - -
Unless I'm going to say: "OK my next utterance will be about a date:"
- then spout 2007, 14th of [what month? what Month?!? ... the impatient listener says to self]
- of ... July!
I can say, Out of the Blue
"Oh, on July 7 let's ____" (There! it's That Month and.. the date. Year is implicit unless added, "'0x")
(If THIS month, "Oh, on the 7th yada.."
(Or would you prefer, proximo / ultimo? / Enclosed please find..)
Short, direct - minimal suspense, fewest syl-la'-bles.
HTH
You silly..
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Post #294,051
10/2/07 3:49:10 PM
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Then skip the "of": "On 7 July..."
...need not be any more ungrammatical than the converse: It's just convention that declares "July 7" grammatically correct; start using "Oh, on 7 July let's ____", and then that becomes the convention and therefore "correct".
Plus, its endianism will make sense.
[link|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode|Christian R. Conrad]
(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
Ah, the Germans: Masters of Convoluted Simplification. — [link|http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/?p=1603|Jehovah]
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Post #294,054
10/2/07 3:58:00 PM
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I'm so happy you have nothing more important to worry about
Smile,
Amy
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Post #294,059
10/2/07 4:43:30 PM
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Well, Anna Nicole is dead, and all, so...
(And these kiddie hussies, PaBritSey and their ilk, are just not the same thing -- freaking toddlers, for one thing, and zero fucking curves, for another -- so I really can't work up the least bit of care-about for any of them...) So what else is there I *should* care about?
[link|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode|Christian R. Conrad]
(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
Ah, the Germans: Masters of Convoluted Simplification. — [link|http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/?p=1603|Jehovah]
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Post #294,068
10/2/07 8:48:47 PM
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strong drink you iggorant finn!
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Post #294,081
10/3/07 3:43:44 AM
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Yeah, well, I thought we wre talking about something...
...besides the obvious daily necessities.
[link|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode|Christian R. Conrad]
(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
Ah, the Germans: Masters of Convoluted Simplification. — [link|http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/?p=1603|Jehovah]
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