Re:Again on 0-based vs. 1-based indexing
by aqme28 on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @11:50AM
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Your "first" birthday is actually your second birthday.
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Re:Again on 0-based vs. 1-based indexing
by tremon on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @01:00PM
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To be pedantic, it's the first annual celebration of your birthday.
Other languages use a less confusing term for it: anniversaire (French) is just anniversary, verjaardag (Dutch) roughly means year-rollover-day, and cumpleaños (Spanish) signifies completion of another year.
Re:Again on 0-based vs. 1-based indexing
by tremon on Saturday January 23, 2021 @08:00AM
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I just realized something: anniversaire has the same root as the other examples I gave. It comes from the latin words annus and verso, which mean "year" and "to turn over" respectively.
Re:Again on 0-based vs. 1-based indexing
by FigmentEngine on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @03:36PM
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its the same in English:
late 14c., from Old English byrddæg, "anniversary or celebration of one's birth" (at first usually a king or saint); see birth (n.) + day. Meaning "day on which one is born" is from 1570s. Birthnight is attested from 1620s. https://www.etymonline.com/word/birthday#etymonline_v_27158