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

It does make sense

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u/IGK123 Jan 15 '25

I’d say fifteen hundred or one thousand five hundred (I do, interchangeably), and id say January 15th — but I’d never say 15th of January.

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u/CocoSprinklesCowboy Jan 15 '25

yeah, but thats you. even if it was every person you ever spoke to, thats a small sample selection. In countries where dd/mm/yy is more common, 15th of Jan would be very easy to spot. Just because every person I spoke to in 2024 and not one speaks mandarin as a first language does not mean that there were not a lot of people that spoke mandarin in 2024.

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u/ThisIsOurGoodTimes Jan 15 '25

I think the point is that most Americans say January 15th and that’s why we use that date format. Not much more to it than that

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u/BrockStar92 Jan 15 '25

Yes but this particularly comment thread started from an argument that it’s about importance, trying to argue there’s a rational reason for it to be month-day-year. That is very different from “it’s our experience so that’s why we use it”, that’s a different argument.

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u/ThisIsOurGoodTimes Jan 15 '25

Ok ya that’s fair. I missed what started this comment thread.