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Arguably, emojis are going in that direction. And, seriously, the rest of the world considers it totally illogical to use MM-DD-YYYY. In almost any country, MM
by Iv 8y ago
Arguably, emojis are going in that direction.
And, seriously, the rest of the world considers it totally illogical to use MM-DD-YYYY. In almost any country, MM are the middle digits. 4月12日2019年 is a format I have never seen used.
- kondro 8y agoFun fact, emoji was invented by the Japanese. :-)
- h1d 8y agoI wonder what people think its root is.
- SllX 8y agoIt’s not a format I’ve seen used either, but it isn’t as if the Japanese perfectly retained Chinese conventions for ideograph usage either. They derived Katakana from Kanji, Hiragana from Katakana, integrated them all into a cohesive written Japanese grammar, formalized the stroke order into a strict system propagated through their school system and from that, developed the SKIP dictionary lookup method which is the only lookup system for Kanji that ever made sense to my foreign brain. My point? Writing systems are flexible, and more so the more semantic notations you can integrate and propagate through society. You would never see 4月12日2019年 today, but hypothetically it wouldn’t matter if you did because it is inherently unambiguous so long as you understand the meaning of the Kanji involved. Besides that, while you won’t see 4月12日2019年, you still might see 4月12日.