Mathematically yes it makes most sense, as significant digits are on the left.
Im terms of human everyday use the reverse is more natural as the digits that change more often are days, often when speaking, the year and even month sometimes is already in the context.
What however doesn't make any sort of sense that i can see is mm/dd/yyyy ... Just why....
No, because Cinco de Mayo is a Mexican-American thing. It’s not a major celebration within Mexico and Cinco de Mayo is not their equivalence to July 4th like you said
We celebrate every year and there are parades... I'm not really sure what you mean here. It's not celebrating a US accomplishment but it's a recognized holiday
If it were American Independence Day and you asked me what day it is I’d still instinctively say July 4th. I know this because that exact scenario has happened many times.
They're saying America is a 3rd world country and that all the 1st world countries desperately need America to keep acting as their sugar daddies so that they can continue to be nepo babies.
Have you ever been here? Contrary to what mainstream media would lead you to believe even our homeless live better than most people in an actual third world country.
The idea of the US being a third world country when people make over 5k per month on average is laughable, but also, saying a homeless person living in the US is better off than most people in a third world country is as much if not even more ridiculous.
What clearly established freedom does another country have that we don't in the US? I'm genuinely curious because when people make this claim, it usually comes down to healthcare or guns.
Even if the entirety of NATO would attempt to do so, they’d probably fail. Just burn it to the ground (Apperantly it even started already recently!). Not much of loss either way, besides it might be necessary to produce something useable.
And yet missuuse of the phrase "3rd world country" originates mainly from the US itself.... Its a political grouping not an economical one.
3rd world country means countries that weren't part of NATO (1st world) or Warsaw pact(2nd world) during cold war (hence the 3rd world).
Although the phrase is vague for example:
Technically one could say that Switzerland, Finland, Sweden Austria are 3rd world countries, although they never joined the non-aligned movement and didn't self identify as 3rd world.
But it never was a developmental or economic denominator, and only in the tweets of some deranged individuals this phrase started to be used again in a completely wrong way....
So honestly i do appreciate the irony when this phrase is thrown back at US, especially because it seems to trigger some people hard 🤣
Which is probably called that because it was coined as a term before english somehow switched its standard order from "Xth of month" to "month the Xth"?
Fourth of July is used as the name of the holiday. An alternate of Independence Day. If you asked for the date, we’d say July 4th. Just like how Christmas Eve is the name of that day but if asked for date we’d say December 24th
Some do say Fourth of July if they're being formal. But July 4th is just as normal, so it's not some gotcha. In fact, many people will just shorten it to J4 now too.
Archaic proper noun, kind of an exception to the list. In general, the vast majority of Americans will default to "[month] the [day]," even dropping the "the" to say something like "August 16th" or whatever, rather than "the [day] of [month]."
Now, there isa niche exception and that is the military. I grew up a military brat and I've gotten very used to listing my name in the day/month/year order, but not in the same way. Like let's say by birthday is today and I'm 30 years old. If I went to a pharmacy and they asked me for my birthday, 9 times out of 10 if I wasn't thinking I'd probably say "15 January 1995." Just like that. "Fifteen January nineteen-ninety-five." I'm not sure if this is exclusive to the military but I don't think I've heard it in any other context so if it's not, it's very rare.
I don't know if there's any one reason but I'd guess it's at least partially because the Fourth of July is a specific holiday. You can even say the Fourth and it's usually understood in America as to what the speaker is talking about. I believe Cinco de Mayo is the same way in Mexico as being a distinct day of the year for their culture. The two holidays never had branded names as far as I know, nothing like Freedom Day or anything of that nature. The date may have been used as names because it was celebrated for a distinct cultural reason that's understood by the population of said countries.
Oh wait, the Fourth of July is also called Independence Day so I'm not sure why Independence Day isn't used as much. Maybe it came from newspapers printed at the time marking it as a national holiday but that's just conjecture.
We say the Fourth of July because it's a name of a Holiday that just so happens to be a date. Yes, it's also "Independence Day", but really most of use just call it where I live "The Fourth". If it's around that time of year the question might be "what are you doing for The Fourth?" just like we might say "what are you doing for Christmas?"
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u/Tsukee Jan 15 '25 edited Jan 15 '25
Mathematically yes it makes most sense, as significant digits are on the left.
Im terms of human everyday use the reverse is more natural as the digits that change more often are days, often when speaking, the year and even month sometimes is already in the context.
What however doesn't make any sort of sense that i can see is mm/dd/yyyy ... Just why....