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9/11 vs 911
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| igottaknow |
| I know this is a silly complaint, but it annoys me when I hear people pronounce the wtc attack as "nine one one" instead of "nine eleven". I even hear it on national TV. For god's sake 9/11 is the date of the attack not the phone number used in the USA to dial for help. Would anyone in their right mind say today date as "three two five two zero zero four"? BTW, I know other countries put the day and month in different order I'm only referring to the way you pronounce a date. |
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| Shakka |
| quote: | Originally posted by igottaknow
I know this is a silly complaint, but it annoys me when I hear people pronounce the wtc attack as "nine one one" instead of "nine eleven". I even hear it on national TV. For god's sake 9/11 is the date of the attack not the phone number used in the USA to dial for help. Would anyone in their right mind say today date as "three two five two zero zero four"? BTW, I know other countries put the day and month in different order I'm only referring to the way you pronounce a date. |
I hear ya. For the longest time, it bothered me when people said "Nine-Eleven" instead of saying "September eleventh", like it was more of a cliche and showing little regard for the serious significance of the event. I guess I've become numb to it since it's so mainstream, but I definitely know what you mean. It's not like people walk around referring to "Twelve-Seven". When I hear someone say "Pearl Harbor", I don't generally think of the movie. |
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| arctic |
Well, if you want to get technical about it, it really should be 11/9. :p
Interestingly, until Americans started referring to the attacks as 9/11, I had no idea that you actually 'pronounced' dates back to front. :nervous: |
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| Shakka |
| quote: | Originally posted by arctic
Well, if you want to get technical about it, it really should be 11/9. :p
Interestingly, until Americans started referring to the attacks as 9/11, I had no idea that you actually 'pronounced' dates back to front. :nervous: |
We don't use the metric system very much either. We're just all sorts of ed up over here!:toothless |
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| St_Andrew |
| quote: | Originally posted by arctic
Well, if you want to get technical about it, it really should be 11/9. :p |
lol that is so true :D :D |
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| occrider |
| quote: | Originally posted by arctic
Well, if you want to get technical about it, it really should be 11/9. :p
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Well if you really really want to get technical about it shouldn't it be 11.9?
/crazy europeans |
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| ahlamalek |
no no
2001-09-11
ISO standard #347134 |
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| Q5echo |
110245ZSEP04 : Military GENADMIN standard
Great thread. |
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| Vigilante |
You Americans have it all wrong.
It goes day/month/year
so really, it should be 11/9
:p :p :p |
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| imokruok |
The difference comes from the way we prefer to write out the entire date. In a news article, it's normal for Americans to write "September 11th, 2001" rather than "11 September 2001." So when we write the date in short form, we do it in that order. 09/11/01.
As for metric, you'll never get 290 million Americans to make the switch from pounds and miles. First of all, it's natural because we've done it since we were "colonies."
Second, with distance measurements, we'll never switch from miles. As Americans developed this country, the grid system was done in square miles. For example, the city that I am from is 36 square miles, and the major cross-streets were built at each mile. It's like that all across the US, with land plots measured in fractions of square miles, or "acres", which are 1/640 of a square mile.
So there's really no point in switching to metric distance, because it's just a ton more work, and screws up the way the grids were nicely planned. Europeans didn't have this problem, because their cities for the most part, weren't planned like this. |
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| Yoepus |
| quote: | Originally posted by ahlamalek
no no
2001-09-11
ISO standard #347134 |
First thing we agree about :D |
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