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Originally Posted by Ric
So what do you say if asked your date of birth?
In my case I would say - 'The Second Of The Seventh, Eighty Four.'
If I said it the American way would I have to say? 'The Seventh Month And The Second Day Of Eighty Four' ... It just does not sit right with me.
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That's really what you would say if some asked for your birthday? We usually don't even numerically say the month, we only do that when we write it. A simple response would be "August 15th, 1985." Is that really that odd? Just as the 15th of August, 1985 wouldn't be that weird either..
I think the weirdness just becomes with the muscle memory of writing it the way we do. For whatever reason I was taught to write 8/15/85 for the date above, and if I saw it as 15/8/85 it would take me a second because my brain doesn't immediately recognize that pattern. I understand why both sides think the other is strange, mainly because we didn't learn it that way.
EDIT: Mana stole my thunder, whoops. Heh.