#ForBorje - GDT #1: TOR v TBL 23/4/18 7:30 - HERE. WE. GO.

[Wayward DP]

Are you dyslexia

when you are speaking with people, do you say, "the Leafs play game one on April 18" or, "the Maples Leafs of Toronto play their first game of the official postseason on this 18th day of April, year 2023"?

 

[WellPlayed]

Ya write it like you say it. Zeke trying to be all euro.

 

[zeke]

when you are speaking with people, do you say, "the Leafs play game one on April 18" or, "the Maples Leafs of Toronto play their first game of the official postseason on this 18th day of April, year 2023"?

If you are using words instead of numbers, you can say it any way you want.

But you never say "five eighteen twenty twenty-three".

If you're using numbers, it only makes sense to go sequentially one way or the other.

 

[Wayward DP]

If you are using words instead of numbers, you can say it any way you want.

But you never say "five eighteen twenty twenty-three".

If you're using numbers, it only makes sense to go sequentially one way or the other.

yeah my way is sequential. day belongs to month; month belongs to year.

also get real, no one says the numbers out loud

 

[zeke]

Senseless.

Year month day

Day month year

Using month day year just because some people say the words of their language in a certain order in some areas of the world sometimes but not all of the time is obviously super dumb.

Be smarter.

 

[Wayward DP]

Senseless.

Year month day

Day month year

Using month day year just because some people say the words of their language in a certain order in some areas of the world sometimes but not all of the time is obviously super dumb.

Be smarter.

wait why is it any more sensible to randomly insist that the month must be in the middle?

and our language reflect our conventions and vice versa. convention is the way I do it! I'm the normal one here, weird middle month stickler

 

[Preston]

Who the fuck has such strong opinions about this?

 

[LeafOfFaith]

coach lipflapper speaks

“Don’t change a thing, Sheldon!”

 

[zeke]

wait why is it any more sensible to randomly insist that the month must be in the middle?

and our language reflect our conventions and vice versa. convention is the way I do it! I'm the normal one here, weird middle month stickler

It's not random. Days are in months are in years. Years contain months contain days.

Just like Time. Hours, minutes, seconds. Doesn't matter if you're the kind of person who likes to say "a quarter to 5" or "10 of 6", when you use the numbers you put them in proper sequential order.

 

[LeafOfFaith]

wait why is it any more sensible to randomly insist that the month must be in the middle?

and our language reflect our conventions and vice versa. convention is the way I do it! I'm the normal one here, weird middle month stickler

The other way is for baboons.

You don’t have to defend it.

 

[zeke]

But thanks for reminding me - i did do it wrong. I should have put year first. Thats the real way.

The way you date computer files so they sort correctly.

 

[LeafOfFaith]

But thanks for reminding me - i did do it wrong. I should have put year first. Thats the real way.

The way you date computer files so they sort correctly.

This is not a simulation though.

Some life does occur outside of your computer.

I date my computer files like that, but it is MM/DD/YYYY for all other purposes.

 

[zeke]

This is not a simulation though.

Some life does occur outside of your computer.

Numbers are universal, not local dialect-dependant.

 

[axlsalinger]

Outrageous!

Month-Day-Year at all times. It's just science.

 

[Preston]

My inner nerd agrees with zeke. My inner meat head jock wants to smack the shit out of him.

 

[LeafOfFaith]

My inner nerd agrees with zeke. My inner meat head jock wants to smack the shit out of him.

Hasn’t your inner nerd already had the shit kicked out of him by your inner jock?

If not, it’s time.

 

[zeke]

In fact the only time in english we ever vocally use the number for the month is when we say something like "the 11th day of the 9th month in the year of our lord 1814" or some such shit, never "the 5th month on the 9th day of the year of our dark lord 1462".

Because we know when we use numbers we put them in the proper fucking order you fucking dummies.

 

[hockeylover]

But thanks for reminding me - i did do it wrong. I should have put year first. Thats the real way.

The way you date computer files so they sort correctly.

Yep.

 

[LeafOfFaith]

In fact the only time in english we ever vocally use the number for the month is when we say something like "the 11th day of the 9th month in the year of our lord 1814" or some such shit, never "the 5th month on the 9th day of the year of our dark lord 1462".

Because we know when we use numbers we put them in the proper fucking order you fucking dummies.

Program yourself to self-destruct the next time something without circuits asks you the date and you reply with day before month.

 

[zeke]

Today is the eighteenth of April, twenty twenty-three.