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The sudden realization that my 20th coincides with the last sequential date of the 21st century
Saturday, 13-Dec-14 18:28:01 UTC from web-
@redenchilada 13/12/14
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@nerthos Why do you use the wrong date format
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@redenchilada Is it really wrong if that's the way the rest of the world writes it?
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@derpy128 Of course it is because I said so
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@redenchilada Because is the one that makes sense. Either DD/MM/YYYY, or YYYY/MM/DD/HH:MM SS and so on. The system you use messes up the order of magnitude in a way that can't logically be explained.
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@nerthos The way I see it, it's because smallest potential number/middle potential number/largest potential number. 12/31/2014, for example.
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@mrmattimation Huh. You know, this is the first time someone ever gives me a somewhat valid justification for that weird system.
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@nerthos Or we say "it's December 25th, 2014" hence 12-25-14
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@derpy128 Hmm. I always go for "The 25th of December, 2014"
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@nerthos I suppose that's just a cultural difference. I mean, we also say color and drive on the right side of the road.
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@nerthos Also we have 4-way stops as opposed to the more efficient roundabout.
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@derpy128 I do as well, though the pronunciation for "color" is fairly different.
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@nerthos Yeah, isn't it colour?
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@derpy128 Nope. It's color pronounced as "kohlóhr"
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@nerthos Kill me
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@derpy128 some people spell it colour because thats the way we always spell it and others spell it color because they spell words the way they sound.
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@derpy128 It's pretty hard to write down castillian pronunciations so that a native english speaker can understand. I'm not versed in the standard phonetic alphabet.
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@nerthos I got it :p
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@coutz Good enough for me then
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@nerthos why can't everyone who speaks english speak the same english as everybody else and if you want to confuse everybody speak in another language thats relatively hard to learn so not many people will understand you
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@stardust Likely because languages develop on their own when cut from their source. People will start taking in little traits from the languages of land that surround them, so after a few centuries two countries that used to speak exactly the same language will have noticeable variations.
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@stardust If you think this is hard, try learning how to speak all variations of Spanish that exist in Latin America.
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@nerthos like north welsh and south welsh
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@coutz I went to Mexico City once and told them I wanted to buy a new coat using a phrase I learned from Columbians and they arrested me for insulting the government. I tried to talk my way out of it using phrases I learned from Puerto Rico, but this seemed to offend the Ecuadorian ambassador who happened to be there.
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@mrmattimation That's pretty much what happens.
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@coutz you could have pronounced it wrong
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@stardust I is never wrong
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@stardust To be honest with you, I literally know nothing of Welsh. I couldn't recognize it when put next to another european language I didn't knew.
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