Sorry to be be a bore, folks, but I have just stumbled across this abso-spiffing-lutely nifty word, and wanted to use it. It came up in an email about infixes, apparently a a grammatical feature much used in Inuktitut (Oh, NicholasW, wherefore art thou? Examples please) How cool is it that there's a word for doing that?! And why do I suddenly have this overwhelming urge to talk like Ned Flanders?
Thanks, Bridget, I'll have to try that link later, it 404'd on me, even after removing the redundant http:// . Shaconian came up here shortly after you arrived, quite possibly inspired by your signature line. Try doing a search for shaconian, you only need to search the last couple of weeks.
Well spotted Max, those dates get me all the time! So much so, that I've given up using pure numbers for dates - I use 12 April 2000, wherever possible these days.
I can cope with so many cross cultural differences but this one is a real pain in the ***, especially when buying airline tickets issued by American carriers - I always think that one day I'll turn up and my ticket will be wrong by months. Is there an international standard?
[ps - I've just checked and my United Airline issued tickets say - Date of issue: 11DEC00, so that probably is the international standard, ... unless tickets issued in the USA say DEC1100, ... no, probably not!]
jmh : I've given up using pure numbers for dates - I use 12 April 2000, wherever possible these days......one day I'll turn up and my ticket will be wrong by months. Is there an international standard?
Don't know about a standard but my use of the 20 Jan 01 style goes back to 1965 ... the US Armed Forces used that style to avoid confusion when dealing with its personnel's being deployed to various countries. When I did civilian travels it just seemed to work better all around than the all numerical style and other variations in use around the globe. Once you get used to it, it's easy. wow
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. Shaconian came up here shortly after you arrived, quite possibly inspired by your signature line. Try doing a search for shaconian, you only need to search the last couple of weeks.
