Gingerbread Man on 13/9/2006 at 07:10
computers are stupid :grr:
Schattentänzer on 13/9/2006 at 07:32
Quote Posted by TheOutrider
Plus unlike the "US Standard", or the Imperial system for that matter, at least the metric system is based on whole decimal fractions
Which makes kind of sense since we now have these ten wonderfull, slender arabic numerals. The doudecimal system was fine as long as we were still using roman numerals.
TheOutrider on 13/9/2006 at 12:21
Quote Posted by Briareos H
If that was true it would get more and more annoying, especially when you work with computers. There is no reason to justify the DD MM YYYY system.
Hopefully, the ISO8601 date representation is YYYY-MM-DD
Burned by my own stupidity. :(
Quote Posted by Gingerbread Man
DMY is annoying. I don't say "Thirteenth of September, 2006" -- I say "September thirteenth, 2006"
Yes, you anglosaxon folk do that. Germans don't though ("Thirteenth September" here), nor do the French (I think, I stopped studying that six years ago and haven't used it since). Not sure about other languages.
The MDY date format is pretty much exclusive to the English parts of the world as far as I've seen, and probably rooted in just what you describe: the way the date is usually pronounced. Doesn't make it any less wrong though, and I second what Dave said :P
Quote Posted by Schattentänzer
Which makes kind of sense since we now have these ten wonderfull, slender arabic numerals. The doudecimal system was fine as long as we were still using roman numerals.
"Back when I was young, we didn't have all those fancy number thingamajigs! Kids today..." ;)
Matthew on 13/9/2006 at 12:33
Quote Posted by TheOutrider
The MDY date format is pretty much exclusive to the English parts of the world as far as I've seen
More like the American English parts of the world (not strictly true btw). Over here we use DMY.
Gingerbread Man on 13/9/2006 at 18:54
Quote Posted by TheOutrider
Yes, you anglosaxon folk do that. Germans don't though ("Thirteenth September" here)
Yes, but you also say "I in Dusseldorf have been born" or something equally sinister.
Schattentänzer on 13/9/2006 at 20:29
Very honored Mr. Gingerbread Man,
before the fact, that you problems have, the beauty of the german language to grasp - and here makes the grammar no exception - can I not simply my eyes close, but feel myself compelled you with an example the opposite to proove.
How can you not the smooth and flowing word order appreciate, with which this language every word in the right, yes I dare it to say, natural positions places?
With friendly greetings,
Dr. von Schattenzanger
P.S.: I was in Marburg an der Lahn born
Navyhacker006 on 13/9/2006 at 20:35
Quote Posted by Gingerbread Man
DMY is annoying. I don't say "Thirteenth of September, 2006" -- I say "September thirteenth, 2006"
LIKE ANY SANE PERSON WOULD
SHODAN says "Sixth day of November"
If it's good enough for her, why isn't it good enough for us? :(
Gingerbread Man on 13/9/2006 at 20:36
SHODAN is also a transexual.
Scots Taffer on 13/9/2006 at 23:28
Quote Posted by Gingerbread Man
DMY is annoying. I don't say "Thirteenth of September, 2006" -- I say "September thirteenth, 2006"
That's because when you're wandering around your house in your underwear with a cup of coffee, you pretend you're a Secret Agent of the F.B.I. talking into some invisible dictophone for some offscreen character that is never seen and only known by name.
mol on 14/9/2006 at 11:10
Quote Posted by Schattentänzer
How can you not the smooth and flowing word order appreciate, with which this language every word in the right, yes I dare it to say, natural positions places?
You all know the implications of this?
Yes, Yoda was, in fact, German.
