1.3.13

wanderingbear said:
who's saint David?
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St. David is the patron saint of Wales. Also referred to as Dafydd y galon gwyn (David of the white heart) and March 1st is his saints day. Time for the national flower of Wales the Daffodil and for some reason that has never been explained to me, the leek!
 
his miracle was he was standing in a field speaking to a crowd when the ground beneath his feet mounded upwards and a dove landed on his shoulder.

wow moles and birds liked him
 
evince said:
todays date is 3/1/13
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Todays date is 1 (first) of 3 (March) 2013 (Two thousand and thirteen). The third of January was two months ago. I knew America was behind the times, but two months??
 
Lowaicue said:
Todays date is 1 (first) of 3 (March) 2013 (Two thousand and thirteen). The third of January was two months ago. I knew America was behind the times, but two months??
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Twisted logic.

Written one would say "March 3rd, 2013"... We say it again in shortened form 03/01/13. Some other places in the world use something other than standard English, so they choose to say it like they would in France or some other nations...

1st "of" march, 2013 and then shorten it.

We just keep it to our language and tell the rest of the world to stuff it. Come up with a "logical" reason all you want, but all you are doing is conforming while we just say it in English.
 
Damocles said:
Twisted logic.

Written one would say "March 3rd, 2013"... We say it again in shortened form 03/01/13. Some other places in the world use something other than standard English, so they choose to say it like they would in France or some other nations...

1st "of" march, 2013 and then shorten it.

We just keep it to our language and tell the rest of the world to stuff it. Come up with a "logical" reason all you want, but all you are doing is conforming while we just say it in English.
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I get frustrated with English arrogance. It's like they think they founded us or something!
 
Damocles said:
Twisted logic.

Written one would say "March 3rd, 2013"... We say it again in shortened form 03/01/13. Some other places in the world use something other than standard English, so they choose to say it like they would in France or some other nations...

1st "of" march, 2013 and then shorten it.

We just keep it to our language and tell the rest of the world to stuff it. Come up with a "logical" reason all you want, but all you are doing is conforming while we just say it in English.
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As an Englishman I do know my own language. I do hope you don't mind my saying that. It is 1.3.13. You may wallow in your mistake for all eternity, but it doesn't alter the fact that you are mistaken.
It just goes with your other somewhat archaic approach to such things as measurements and spelling and sports and the renaming of things with which you are uncomfortable.
You wish to be insular so be insular, but please dont ever think that American English is in anyway superior to the correct version.
Speak American by all means, but don't call it English. (adj: meaning 'of England'. n: The people of England)
 
Mott the Hoople said:
My ancestors were Irish. Theiving bastards, every one of them!
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Now how could you ever say such a thing. The country of Synge, of Shaw, of Wilde, of Behan, Stoker, Yeats and Heaney. Of the Curragh and Connemara, of the Ring of Kerry and O'Connell Street, the Burlington and the Gresham.

Yeah.... maybe you're right after all.
 
Lowaicue said:
As an Englishman I do know my own language. I do hope you don't mind my saying that. It is 1.3.13. You may wallow in your mistake for all eternity, but it doesn't alter the fact that you are mistaken.
It just goes with your other somewhat archaic approach to such things as measurements and spelling and sports and the renaming of things with which you are uncomfortable.
You wish to be insular so be insular, but please dont ever think that American English is in anyway superior to the correct version.
Speak American by all means, but don't call it English. (adj: meaning 'of England'. n: The people of England)
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So.. Basically, you can't suggest that in English we use the Genetive case in dates like they do in Slavic or Latin languages and instead take pride in conformity.

March 1, 2013... is rewritten to be 03/01/13. You can take "pride" in conformity because, like a dyslexic kid, you twist logic to make your misspelling seem "right" to you or you can take control and make others conform to your awesome. We choose to wallow in the awesome, you choose to pretend to like kilometers but give directions in miles... sheepishly resorting back to a small piece of the awesome you once held in your hands... (yeah, I've been to your 'homeland' recently).
 
evince said:
his miracle was he was standing in a field speaking to a crowd when the ground beneath his feet mounded upwards and a dove landed on his shoulder.

wow moles and birds liked him
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Who does that remind me of?

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Damocles said:
So.. Basically, you can't suggest that in English we use the Genetive case in dates like they do in Slavic or Latin languages and instead take pride in conformity.

March 1, 2013... is rewritten to be 03/01/13. You can take "pride" in conformity because, like a dyslexic kid, you twist logic to make your misspelling seem "right" to you or you can take control and make others conform to your awesome. We choose to wallow in the awesome, you choose to pretend to like kilometers but give directions in miles... sheepishly resorting back to a small piece of the awesome you once held in your hands... (yeah, I've been to your 'homeland' recently).
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Have you any idea how expensive or difficult it would be to change all the speed and distance road signs in the UK to be in kilometres? As for pints of beer, I think there is a deep distrust that changing to litres would be used to surreptitiously put up prices. People have long memories about decimalisation of money in 1971 and the effect on prices. In scientific circles the UK changed from CGS to MKS and finally the SI system having initially introduced metric measurements in 1965. The US still uses FPS for the most part which is totally crazy.

Regarding dates this from Wiki explains it nicely:

Middle-endian, starting with month (Month-Day-Year)

This sequence is used primarily in the United States. This date format was commonly used alongside the small endian form in the United Kingdom until the early 20th Century and can be found in both defunct and modern print media such as the London Gazette and The Times, respectively. In the UK, it is orally expressed as Sunday, November the 9th, whereas in the United States it is usually Sunday, November 9, although usage of "the" isn't uncommon (Sunday, November 9, and even November 9, Sunday, are also possible and readily understood).
 
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