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Re:Does Your Code Pass the Turkey Test? by SideburnsOfDoom on Friday December 06, 2024 @05:23PM (#42345213)
> The natural flow in English is MDY, e.g. July 4th, 2024.

I'm sure that's true. This seems more like US custom than the whole English language. "July 4th" sound a bit forced and not natural to me, and I am a native English speaker. Not US English though.

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Re:Does Your Code Pass the Turkey Test? by SideburnsOfDoom on Saturday December 07, 2024 @04:40AM (#42348501)
> I'm sure that's true.

I accidentally an important word there. It should be "I'm not sure that's true." It's an English expression that's a bit understated: it means "I'm confident that this is wrong".

You can't always argue from "what feels natural" - that's prone to mere familiarity (1), and someone else who is more used to the other way will have the opposite "feel". It's subjective, and not universal.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere-exposure_effect

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