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Re: Palindrome Day 20200202

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Post by a_t48 »

ewindal wrote: post #76
mcv wrote: post #57

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Any responsible parent will call him Bob or Anna, of course. Taking surnames into account is going to be a bit harder. Here's a good resource for anyone becoming a parent today: https://parentinghealthybabies.com/palindrome-names/

Oof, that list is terrible. Natan is listed twice, and there’s at least one name that isn’t a palindrome. The only two names that really work from that list is Anna and Hannah. Nobody should name their kid Bob in 2020, it’s not a «young» name yet. Thr older Bobs need to die off before it’s an acceptable kid’s name. As for the rest of those names, I refuse to acknowledge them as names. They’re more like onomatopoeia.

Are you saying “Ada Lovelace” had a fake name? :)

Re: Palindrome Day 20200202

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Post by Symbiote »

gorgoiler wrote: post #69
skrebbel wrote: post #35

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I love the term "middle endianness" and how clearly it highlights how nuts the American date notation is. EDIT: fwiw, in my native language, most numbers from 100 and 1000 are pronounced middle endian, so I'm not complaining.

Just as with inches, feet, and pounds the system works better in practical real world conversation than it does in more formal language. “When’s your birthday? 10/23. When are we going to Ma’s? 11/19 thru 11/29. When do you go back into therapy? 12/8.”

“When’s your birthday? 23/10. When are we going to Mum’s? 19-29/11. When do you go back into therapy? 8/12.”

As it could be written in English in Britain, Australia etc.

23/10 is pronounced "23rd of October" or (usually) "23rd'f October" or "23rd'f the 10th".

The range is "19th to 29th of November" or "... of the 11th".

The pronunciation "second of the second twenty-twenty" is usually used when the listener is writing, typing or confirming the date in figures.

Re: Palindrome Day 20200202

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Post by justinclift »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #75
Lio wrote: post #48

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I don’t know, I always imagined that you said “4th of July” because up to that point you were Brits and that’s how we say it. ...and then the very next day, without adult supervision, you started saying your dates weirdly and dropping the “u”s out of words, stuff like that.* * DISCLAIMER: May not be an accurate representation of history. :P

It's more accurate than it might sound. If I recall correctly, the American spelling reforms were largely a one-man top-down effort driven by the ideological goal of being more separate from Britain.

It's commonly referred to as "Simplified English" for good reason. ;)

Re: Palindrome Day 20200202

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Post by dkersten »

ewindal wrote: post #76
mcv wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any responsible parent will call him Bob or Anna, of course. Taking surnames into account is going to be a bit harder. Here's a good resource for anyone becoming a parent today: https://parentinghealthybabies.com/palindrome-names/

Oof, that list is terrible. Natan is listed twice, and there’s at least one name that isn’t a palindrome. The only two names that really work from that list is Anna and Hannah. Nobody should name their kid Bob in 2020, it’s not a «young» name yet. Thr older Bobs need to die off before it’s an acceptable kid’s name. As for the rest of those names, I refuse to acknowledge them as names. They’re more like onomatopoeia.

Ada, Ava, Eve and Viv are all names I’ve seen in the wild and would consider reasonable names too. There’s also nothing wrong with Bob, despite what you seem to think. So together with Anna and Hannah, that’s 7 names.

Re: Palindrome Day 20200202

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Post by dkersten »

_morgs_ wrote: post #46
TylerE wrote: post #33

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Not true of dates though, since you can set hard bounds at the big bang (or whatever) and the heat death of the universe.

So the universe creates time?

Yes. After the heat death, nothing will ever move or change and so it the universe will remain in a frozen state. Time will have stopped.

Sine time is relative based on the observer and observed, if neither change in any way (no “work” happened and no information is exchanged, even on the level of fundamental particles (or fields/loops/strings or whatever happens to be at the bottom)), for every possible combination of observer and observer, then time has not advanced in any meaningful sense.

Re: Palindrome Day 20200202

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Post by tikej »

lucideer wrote: post #72
mopsi wrote: post #65

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What's so crazy about the German notation? Seems to make perfect sense, as it goes line-by-line from the smallest to the largest sorting unit: 1. Exact street location (street + house) 2. District (postal code) 3. City 4. Country Also I prefer this order over the Chinese, because I assume most people handling mail will need to smallest details and it would just be very annoying if local mailmen had to skip over count…

You listed two details on one line to make the German notation seem non-crazy. A more "logical" notation, as per the gp's comment would start: 1. Exact street location (house + street)

In Poland We do it exactly as you said:

Street_name street_number/house_number

Postal_code, City, Country

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