Why do Americans write their dates diffeerently?

[Lazarus 0]

Fucking TWATS!

 

 

 

[sprucett_78 0]

a friend sent me a cheque from america and wrote the date in as 03/05/06 and when i tried to bank it in march they wouldnt let me when i explained they said try again in may !!!!!!!!

 

 

idiots

[Jimbo 175]

Yanks enjoy being wrong tbh.

[Steve 0]

At least they can say the word VITAMIN properly!

[Mags 1]

Typical... if it's not done YOUR way then it's wrong. Standard english piss and moan. Next?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Diffeerently... yet again you go adding useless letters into a perfectly good word in an effort to look 'refined'.

Edited February 25, 2007 by Mags

[JJ 0]

Slightly different but why do Aussies in the cricket do the scoring the opposite way to us? Like here it would be 145/3 for example, but over there it's 3/145.

[Park Life 71]

Slightly different but why do Aussies in the cricket do the scoring the opposite way to us? Like here it would be 145/3 for example, but over there it's 3/145.

 

....not as if we didn't invent the game or anything..

[GeordieMessiah 2]

Slightly different but why do Aussies in the cricket do the scoring the opposite way to us? Like here it would be 145/3 for example, but over there it's 3/145.

 

Typical bloody Aussie mentality. They seem to think that just because they're "down under" they can do everything we do the opposite way. They even have the water go down their sinkholes the opposite way to us, and then have the temerity to claim it's something to do with geophysics or whatever.

[Steve 0]

Slightly different but why do Aussies in the cricket do the scoring the opposite way to us? Like here it would be 145/3 for example, but over there it's 3/145.

 

....not as if we didn't invent the game or anything..

 

But like with EVERY game you invented, you gave it to the rest of the world and then the rest of the world got better than you at it.

[NJS 4446]

Not sure about the date thing but the usual moans about "American English" are down to them not evolving (how ironic) the language as muc as we have.

 

Things like color were how thing were spelled in the 16/17th century but we added the "u" in the meantime. Thet also use words we used to use like "furlough" for a holiday that have fallen out of usage.

 

The classic "aluminum" is however them being twats - they discovered it but blatantly refused to follow the international standard of metals ending in "ium" which we corrected for them but they wouldn't follow suit.

 

Getting back to dates from a geek pov as someone who has torn his hair out over the years because of the way dates work and the different formats I'd prefer it if we could adpopt some kind of Trek like decimal system.

[Ally 0]

Typical... if it's not done YOUR way then it's wrong. Standard english piss and moan. Next?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Diffeerently... yet again you go adding useless letters into a perfectly good word in an effort to look 'refined'.

 

Erm the language is called English, not American. So it should be done OUR way, no?

[Tom_NUFC 0]

Not sure about the date thing but the usual moans about "American English" are down to them not evolving (how ironic) the language as muc as we have.

 

Things like color were how thing were spelled in the 16/17th century but we added the "u" in the meantime. Thet also use words we used to use like "furlough" for a holiday that have fallen out of usage.

 

That's not actually true, because until well into the 19th century, there were no standard spellings. Many words were spelt in a variety of wierd and wonderful ways. The 'u' in colour and other words are due to them being taking from french words which had 'u's in them.

 

On the date thing - the Japanese do dates in yet another way. For instance they'd write today's date as: 07/02/25

Edited February 25, 2007 by Tom_NUFC

[luckyluke 2]

The English systems for the date and cricket score are both perfectly logical. Both the American date system and the Australian scoring method are fucking stupid, were invented by retards and used by spastics.

 

FACT.

[catmag 337]

The English systems for the date and cricket score are both perfectly logical. Both the American date system and the Australian scoring method are fucking stupid, were invented by retards and used by spastics.

 

FACT.

 

 

[luckyluke 2]

I'm not wrong though am I?

 

Date, month, year. Smallest unit of time to the largest, in order.

 

Runs scored/wickets lost. Relative success against relative failure. For example, England 120/9. England have scored 120 runs for the loss of nine wickets.

 

For a bowler's figures, it's the other way round, as success is taking a wicket. For example, Harmison 1/300. Harmison has taken 1 wicket but conceded 300 runs*.

 

It actually amazes me that anyone can think this is not the best way of doing things.

 

 

 

 

 

*most of them wides, the useless prick.

Edited February 25, 2007 by luckyluke

[Lazarus 0]

Is it 'Howay' or 'Haway' in the US and A?

 

[GeordieMessiah 2]

Is it 'Howay' or 'Haway' in the US and A?

 

 

Either way, I'm sure Gemmill will know

[Shearergol 0]

Typical... if it's not done YOUR way then it's wrong. Standard english piss and moan. Next?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Diffeerently... yet again you go adding useless letters into a perfectly good word in an effort to look 'refined'.

 

 

Aweful

[Fop 1]

Not sure about the date thing but the usual moans about "American English" are down to them not evolving (how ironic) the language as muc as we have.

 

Things like color were how thing were spelled in the 16/17th century but we added the "u" in the meantime. Thet also use words we used to use like "furlough" for a holiday that have fallen out of usage.

 

That's not actually true, because until well into the 19th century, there were no standard spellings. Many words were spelt in a variety of wierd and wonderful ways. The 'u' in colour and other words are due to them being taking from french words which had 'u's in them.

 

On the date thing - the Japanese do dates in yet another way. For instance they'd write today's date as: 07/02/25

 

 

Yeah I'm pretty sure "colour" and "armour" were the original English spellings (from french historically) before being Americanised.

 

 

The one that always gets me though is "I could care less" when they actually mean "I could NOT care less".

[Meenzer 15871]

My bugbear is when people say "as far as..." without finishing the sentence with "...is concerned" or similar. Not specifically an Americanism, but I seem to hear it far more from our brethren over yonder.

[Tom_NUFC 0]

On the subject of annoying Americanisms, here are some I don't like.

 

Z (1): I've heard people right here in the United Kingdom calling it 'Zee'. IT'S NOT F*CKING ZEE! IT'S F*CKING ZED!

 

Z(2): People are replacing the 'S' in some words with a 'Z'. I hate that. It's Recognise, not Recognize. I was in a lecture on decolonisation on Friday afternoon, and the lecturer wrote 'DecoloniZation'. I've put the z as a capital, because to me when I see the z used like that, it stands out like a turd on a trifle. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. I was fuming. I wanted to stand up and scream. Fortunately someone nearer was also irritated and told him in a more polite manner, and he changed it.

 

Dropping 'to' and 'and': Americans will talk about how they've got to 'Go take a bath' , 'Go see my friend'. what's happened to the 'and'. If they go away, a friend or relation might say 'Keep in touch, write me'. If anyone said that to me, I'd get a pen and some paper and write 'Me'.

 

I suppose these things are acceptable in America, because of course speech changes over distances, but I don't like to see them creeping into our speech.

[Gemmill 47119]

Americans say "Irregardless" a lot when they mean "Regardless" or "Irrespective". Thick as mince. Only an American could force a double negative into one word.

[Renton 22434]

 

Z(2): People are replacing the 'S' in some words with a 'Z'. I hate that. It's Recognise, not Recognize. I was in a lecture on decolonisation on Friday afternoon, and the lecturer wrote 'DecoloniZation'. I've put the z as a capital, because to me when I see the z used like that, it stands out like a turd on a trifle. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. I was fuming. I wanted to stand up and scream. Fortunately someone nearer was also irritated and told him in a more polite manner, and he changed it.

 

 

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, "z" is the preferred spelling in all but a few words. It's also a myth that the "z" version is an American variant, it was the original English version which they kept, while we drifted towards the "s" versions.

 

Having said that the OED accepts "s" versions as an alternative and personally I prefer the aesthetics of it.

[Gemmill 47119]

 

Z(2): People are replacing the 'S' in some words with a 'Z'. I hate that. It's Recognise, not Recognize. I was in a lecture on decolonisation on Friday afternoon, and the lecturer wrote 'DecoloniZation'. I've put the z as a capital, because to me when I see the z used like that, it stands out like a turd on a trifle. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. I was fuming. I wanted to stand up and scream. Fortunately someone nearer was also irritated and told him in a more polite manner, and he changed it.

 

 

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, "z" is the preferred spelling in all but a few words. It's also a myth that the "z" version is an American variant, it was the original English version which they kept, while we drifted towards the "s" versions.

 

Having said that the OED accepts "s" versions as an alternative and personally I prefer the aesthetics of it.

 

One of the partners in the US used to try and be clever about the "s" vs "z" thing. Wittering on asking me if I pronounced the word with a fast s sound or the slower z sound "Is it criticissse or criticizzze". I pwned him by asking how he spells "rose".

[Meenzer 15871]

If they go away, a friend or relation might say 'Keep in touch, write me'. If anyone said that to me, I'd get a pen and some paper and write 'Me'.

I've always assumed (or suspected) that could be due to the influence of Germanic languages among early colonial types, as you'd use an indirect object there, or at least you would in German ("schreib mir"). Could be miles off though.