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Re: Palindrome Day 20200202

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post #76

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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.

All of you are just talking about American name fashions. The point of 20200202 is that it's a palindrome in every single country and culture that uses AD and the Gregorian calendar. Many of these names may be very suitable in other cultures.

Re: Palindrome Day 20200202

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post #65

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That middle-endianness is spoken doesn’t make it better. It’s still crazy. Starting with the most general and ending with the most specific is a logical order. Doing it the other way round is also logical. But starting with the middle makes no sense. It doesn’t seem unusual to you because you use it often. That said I’m German and I realize that German postal addresses are crazy for the same reason. I wish we‘d adopt…

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 are missing the name of the house resident as the first line. Once I had my mail returned to the sender because my parents-in-law did not put our name on the envelope.

Re: Palindrome Day 20200202

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post #157

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Huh, where I'm from the 24th of December is Christmas. The 25th is the day after Christmas.

Really? Where are you from? This might help explain how Santa delivers all those presents in "one night".

Possibly it's the difference between being an atheist and a catholic, since I faintly remember my catholic friends receiving presents on the morning of the 25th, while I would receive them on the evening of the 24th.

Re: Palindrome Day 20200202

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post #180
post #169

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Yes, it's like a movie series. It's Die Hard 2. That's one name, not two, "2" and "Die Hard", but one: "Die Hard 2".

I didn't say it was two names, I said there are two different movies within the Die Hard series. Just like two different houses on the same street.

Yes, but each movie is a single entity and the number is part of that entity. Just like with "street+house number". It's one entity, not two.

Re: Palindrome Day 20200202

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post #183

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Really? Where are you from? This might help explain how Santa delivers all those presents in "one night".

Possibly it's the difference between being an atheist and a catholic, since I faintly remember my catholic friends receiving presents on the morning of the 25th, while I would receive them on the evening of the 24th.

Interesting. Are you from Canada?

Re: Palindrome Day 20200202

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post #183

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Really? Where are you from? This might help explain how Santa delivers all those presents in "one night".

Possibly it's the difference between being an atheist and a catholic, since I faintly remember my catholic friends receiving presents on the morning of the 25th, while I would receive them on the evening of the 24th.

Opening presents on Christmas Eve is a pretty common tradition.

Calling Christmas Eve "Christmas" is not common at all.

Re: Palindrome Day 20200202

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post #183

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Possibly it's the difference between being an atheist and a catholic, since I faintly remember my catholic friends receiving presents on the morning of the 25th, while I would receive them on the evening of the 24th.

Interesting. Are you from Canada?

I'm from Europe, but not from an English speaking country.
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