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Manfred comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, March 2015, chapter 121 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Manfred 14 March 2015 05:22:45AM *  3 points [-]

It's from the most common spoken order. "March fourteenth, twenty-fifteen."

Comment author: lerjj 14 March 2015 11:34:07AM 5 points [-]

Are you sure that's right chronologically? Just because in the UK we use dd/mm/yy and we say "Fourteenth of March, twenty-fifteen".

Japan apparently uses yy/mm/dd which makes even more sense, but I have no idea how they pronounce their dates. Point being, I'm not sure which order things actually evolved in.

Comment author: Manfred 14 March 2015 02:10:02PM 1 point [-]

Nope, no idea, since our records of the spoken language of the past are bad and I'm lazy. Maybe written and spoken dates slowly co-evolved, since it does appear that the m/d/y trend only dates back to the 17th century or so.

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