Date (2025-01-01)
Date (2025-01-01)
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We could make it even more informative by adding location and season.
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American format is more conversational. We don't say "Fifth of April", we say "April Fifth".
Lots of places say "fifth of April"
the same way you don't say "Forth of July"?
Yeah holiday is special but if you are at work and someone asks the day you say July 4th, just the way we learned
You do. In Germany we say „Fünfter April“.
Same in Swedish. "Femte april"
tjugonionde maj!
First of January, eh?
If we don't just say "Fünfter Vierter", that is "Fifth Fourth" or 5.4.
Pretty sure you guys say it like that because of the date format. In the UK saying "X of Y" is pretty normal.
As always, it's more conversational FOR YOU. You got used to it so it feels natural to you, I have two formats I'm used to just because I speak two different languages and they are perfectly conversational.
Most Germanic languages say "32" as "two-and-thirty".
Thankfully they did not hire Americans to figure out how to write Arab numerals, else we might have more conventions on how to write "86" than there are languages in Europe.