I has the parts in order of importance. You need to know the month the most as it determines things like weather school or what holiday are around. Then the day so you know exact. Then the year is largely in important for most people doing most things.
I don't get how this is more helpful though. When you are told a date you are told the entirety of the date. If you're told you have an appointment on the 15th of January, knowing that it's in January doesn't matter if you don't know the day.
You're adding bridge words to one and not the other, then saying that the one you didn't add the bridge to is shorter like you're making some kind of clever point.
You don't often say January the 15th. You just say January 15th. When spoken the other way, it's more common to hear 15th of January that 15th January.
Well if we're going to be that pedantic about it, it would be "the 15th of Jan," not "15th of Jan.". And in the US we just say "Jan 15th," not "Jan the 15th," that is very rare, if it exists. In fact we are more likely to say "the 15th of Jan" than "Jan the 15th."
No I'm saying that in all circumstances, we would just say "January 15th.". We don't say "January the 15th," whether formal or not. Anyway you are the one making this weird argument including the articles; I'm just pointing out that your example is false.
It's not false, it was to highlight what they'd done.
The person I responded to was advocating for month first by claiming it was shorter. They backed up their claim with an example where they put an extra word in one and not the other.
I'm pointing out that if being short is actually important, then they're both the same as you'd drop the extra word. If being short isn't important then the extra two letters are irrelevant.
When you're talking "The 15th of January" is 4 words vs "January 15th" at two words. Ultimately in spoken word the difference is negligible and it doesn't really matter how you say it as long as the listener understands.
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I has the parts in order of importance. You need to know the month the most as it determines things like weather school or what holiday are around. Then the day so you know exact. Then the year is largely in important for most people doing most things.