Aaagh Ameicanism

WindyNook

WindyNook

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Watching Johnson's briefing
Apart from trying to emulate USA on number of cases etc. The bloomin slides show dates
9/1/2020 9/15/2020. 10/13/2020 etc
Only a set of morons would have month/day/year in that order
 
You get pompous idiots like Gove and the idiot from Somerset, Rees-Mogg standing up in House of Commons having a go at how some members use the English Language and then their leader allows all of the computers used in the press conferences to have US defaults!
 
9/15/2020? You've misunderstood. 2020 has been extended indefinitely so the 'current difficulty' doesn't feck up 2021 as well. That ACTUALLY IS the 15th month they're referring to. Dido Harding has been put in charge of finding new names for the extra months and has bunged Serco a couple of billion to sort it out.:rolleyes:
 
BlindBoyGrunt said:
Americanisms don't usually bother me anymore and some - like the use of the word offence in football - are just practical, but i just do not understand this date thing. Why put the number that changes every day in the middle?
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Agree - a lot of the things that we call Americanisms were actually British 1st, eg soccer and sidewalk as two I can think of from top of my head.

The date though is just daft. Could almost uderstand it if they had yy/mm/dd but not the random way they have it - I'm sure there must be somebody who knows the history behind it and can explain it so that it will then make sense.
 
If you write September 4 2020 9/4/20 would be OK. I don't as keeping the numbers apart avoids confusion.
 
WindyNook said:
Watching Johnson's briefing
Apart from trying to emulate USA on number of cases etc. The bloomin slides show dates
9/1/2020 9/15/2020. 10/13/2020 etc
Only a set of morons would have month/day/year in that order
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Yea noticed that, 10/14/20 😔
 
The format in Britain was M/D/YY until world war II. The US used the British format, and still does. The UK moved to D/M/YY to communicate unambiguously with European countries during the war. Older people in the UK still put month first. I do, that's what my parents and teachers told me to do.
 
Soutra said:
The format in Britain was M/D/YY until world war II. The US used the British format, and still does. The UK moved to D/M/YY to communicate unambiguously with European countries during the war. Older people in the UK still put month first. I do, that's what my parents and teachers told me to do.
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Interesting, never knew that. There's alot like that. The word' gotten' is another example of old English that is no longer used in the UK.
I didn't realise that until I read pilgrim's progress
 
Soutra said:
The format in Britain was M/D/YY until world war II. The US used the British format, and still does. The UK moved to D/M/YY to communicate unambiguously with European countries during the war. Older people in the UK still put month first. I do, that's what my parents and teachers told me to do.
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I'm in my 60s and I've never heard of Britain ever putting the month first.
 
BlindBoyGrunt said:
Americanisms don't usually bother me anymore and some - like the use of the word offence in football - are just practical, but i just do not understand this date thing. Why put the number that changes every day in the middle?
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If I was sat in your company and you mentioned offence relating to football, I would stop listening at that point. The date thing though, I can't agree with you more.
 
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