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Re: Palindrome Day 20200202

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Post by chongli »

mcv wrote: post #57
freyir wrote: post #21

The Human Palindrome will be born tomorrow and die on 2121-12-12 at the age of 101. And in true palindromic fashion, his life will start and end with diapers.

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/

Mike Kim, Able Elba (perhaps related to actor Idris), Renee Keener, or Lia Vail. Source:

https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-first-name-last-name-com...

Edit! One I just thought of while brushing my teeth:

Errol Lorre (perhaps related to Peter?)

Re: Palindrome Day 20200202

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Post by toyg »

pkamb wrote: post #85

Today is my son's due date! I've been hoping for months that he'll be here on time for this palindromic birthday, but nothing yet...

Eh man, can’t do much about these things. I was born on 02/02, married on 05/05, first child on 07/07, but the second child “broke the chain” with a 21/11... ️

Re: Palindrome Day 20200202

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Post by toyg »

isoskeles wrote: post #78
geocrasher wrote: post #28

This post would not be complete without The Ballad of Palindrome by Riders In The Sky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzvQEstC03o A Spaghetti Western style story, starring your hero, Palindrome.

How would this be a Spaghetti Western rather than just an American Western?

In some quarters, “spaghetti” has just become a derogative term meaning “low quality”. Sadly, the concept that “spaghetti western” was actually a genre with certain characteristics but containing a number of masterpieces, was lost under the wave of poor clones of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.

Re: Palindrome Day 20200202

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Post by KitDuncan »

toyg wrote: post #102
pkamb wrote: post #85

Today is my son's due date! I've been hoping for months that he'll be here on time for this palindromic birthday, but nothing yet...

Eh man, can’t do much about these things. I was born on 02/02, married on 05/05, first child on 07/07, but the second child “broke the chain” with a 21/11... ️

happy birthday!

Re: Palindrome Day 20200202

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Post by School-Cotton »

elif wrote: post #73
thaumasiotes wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would agree that there's influence in both directions between the written pattern and the usual manner of speech. All I'm saying here is that there's nothing surprising about the written pattern matching the usual manner of speech. That is the primary purpose of writing; it's weirder for the writing not to match the speech. (Although certainly not unheard of; it is the norm in e.g. Chinese.)

Unfortunately, you're using an idiosyncratic American "usual manner of speech" to justify an idiosyncratic American format.

Idiosyncratic? Of course. People in different countries speak differently. Every natural language is totally arbitrary and “idiosyncratic”. What is your point?

Re: Palindrome Day 20200202

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Post by School-Cotton »

rags2riches wrote: post #44
thaumasiotes wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The American date notation is simply a direct reflection of the spoken language. We say "February second, 2020" and we write "2/2/2020". (Contra the root comment, I can't agree that 2/2/2020 is a palindrome.) I don't see this as being crazy or even unusual. When order matters, you invariably want big-endian notation, which is why that notation is acceptable everywhere regardless of the usual native notation. But by t…

What about the Fourth of July then?

You can say any date like that in American English, it’s just less common. “Today is the second of February” sounds perfectly natural, but I’d be more likely to say “Today is February second”.

Re: Palindrome Day 20200202

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Post by Aperocky »

susam wrote: post #13

The nice thing about today's date, 2020-02-02, is that it is palindrome in three date formats: YYYYMMDD, DDMMYYYY, and MMDDYYYY. This should probably be called "Universal Palindrome Day" because it is a palindrome irrespective of the endianness (big, little, or middle) that is used in various countries. Here is the list of all such dates until the year 9999: 0101-10-10 1010-01-01 1111-11-11 2020-02-02 2121-12-12 3030…

Where is 2021-12-02 though?

edit: NVM. Should read better.

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