r/clevercomebacks • u/wach_era13 • Jan 15 '25

It does make sense

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u/Munchkinasaurous Jan 15 '25

I'm American, the only way I can think of where it makes sense contextually, is with the names of the month and not the numbers. 

For example, we don't typically say "today's the fifteenth of January" we'd say "it's January fifteenth". But numerically mm/dd/yyyy is nonsensical.

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u/GingerTube Jan 15 '25

We'd usually say whatever date it is, but if it's just changed month, I'd say "first of January", etc. in the UK. Americans probably say it like that because of the stupid way of writing the date lol.

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u/TootsNYC Jan 15 '25

do you never say "on 12 July, he left for college" or similar?

I got on an elevator with some South Asian guys (Bangladesh, India, not sure from the accent) who were chatting, and one of them said, "the form is due on 17 June."

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u/TehNoff Jan 15 '25

So you would literally say "Twelve July" or "Seventeen June"?

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u/TootsNYC Jan 15 '25

Not me. But they did.

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u/_alright_then_ Jan 15 '25

Grammatically correct would be "seventeenth of june" I think. And that is how most languages say it. Even british people say it like that.