• Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com
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    3 months ago

    Also the date format used organically in East Asia because of the cultural habit of writing big to small.

    English tends small to big, so I don’t know where yanks got their date format from.

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      3 months ago

      Can you elaborate on that last part? I fail to think of anything where its natural for English to go from small units to big units.

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        3 months ago

        Addresses is the main one.

        But also when talking about objects and categories, e.g. “the oak is a type of tree”, not “trees have a type which is oak”.