It's only the US that does that, though apparently the international standard for date formatting is YYYY-MM-DD.
It's only the US that does that, though apparently the international standard for date formatting is YYYY-MM-DD.
What amazes me is how many native speakers write it's when it's its.Its like their totally confused, which means your confused as well.I hope all that incorrectness was intentional.
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
You might like to start by reading
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html
Decimate used to mean removing one in ten. Something about a roman centurion ordering every tenth legionaire to walk off a cliff to impress the foe.
Its like their totally confused, which means your confused as well.
For example, I would never have put a comma in the snippet of your comment above. But, now that I live in the US, I use them more.
Dates also jar my brain.
Errant apostrophe's.
The international standard, YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS (ISO 8601, if you replace the space with a T) is the one that sorts correctly when sorted alphabetically or numerically. (The largest units are on the left, smallest right, in decreasing order of significance.) That is what makes it useful, in my opinion.
However, I get confused because one half of my brain wants to put the comma there, the other doesn't.
However, I get confused because one half of my brain wants to put the comma there, the other doesn't.
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/comma-fault
However, I get confused because one half of my brain wants to put the comma there, the other doesn't.
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/comma-fault
Therein lies part of the problem: an American English reference source. Some grammar rules in one variant of English are considered absolutely forbidden in others. A case in point is the Oxford comma. You will hardly ever see it in British English. Also the placement of full stops at the end of sentences relative to other trailing punctuation.
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Errant apostrophe's.
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Its like their totally confused, which means your confused as well.
Normally you do not use an apostrophe to form plurals.
Or is that error intentional as Mr. Scram's post appears to be?
Which makes no sense at all unless rewritten:
It's like they're totally confused, which means you're confused as well.
I find it helpful when using contractions to substitute the actual two words to see if the statement still makes sense.
It's paint was flaking off.
It is paint was flaking off.
This also helps with confusion between your and you're, their and they're, and so on.
Normally you do not use an apostrophe to form plurals.
Or is that error intentional as Mr. Scram's post appears to be?
Which makes no sense at all unless rewritten:
It's like they're totally confused, which means you're confused as well.
I find it helpful when using contractions to substitute the actual two words to see if the statement still makes sense.
It's paint was flaking off.
It is paint was flaking off.
This also helps with confusion between your and you're, their and they're, and so on.Mentioning Poes law still wasn't enough?
'cause peeps that like talk like dis in dem dere weird tounges insomuch as text speak IRL are like totes off my books.
Kilobyte.
"I've run out of bandwidth." Often misused by the technically illiterate such as politicians and journalists to mean how much data they can download per month.
Kilobyte.
*dons flame-proof suit and enters bunker*
No suit is flame proof enough and no bunker is protected enough for that one.
Memory is not measured in SI units. Get back to me when I can buy 524.288 kilobit RAM.
Kilobyte.
What's wrong with that?
"I've run out of bandwidth." Often misused by the technically illiterate such as politicians and journalists to mean how much data they can download per month.