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A comment on Slack’s Incident on 2-22-22. Parent comment

Re:Slack’s Incident on 2-22-22 by gleenn on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @05:51PM (#31173623)
Our Independence Day is probably a special case. Clearly language is flexible enough to say all the formats, but the date format we write matches the most common verbalization.
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Re:Slack’s Incident on 2-22-22 by chrisseaton on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @07:03PM (#31174251)
> people for hundreds of years have been saying "March second, nineteen sixty two"

In many other English-speaking countries people usually say "the second of March, nineteen sixty two."

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Re:Slack’s Incident on 2-22-22 by dylan604 on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @07:15PM (#31174347)
Ides of March vs March Ides....

twelve thirty or half twelve

color or colour

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Re:Slack’s Incident on 2-22-22 by skeletonjelly on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @07:08PM (#31174295)
Pretty funny America's most patriotic day is an edge case for something culturally American
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