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Eh no. Let me also be clear I say this and cannot remember the date of Pearl Harbor, Cherynobl, or a number of other major events. 9/11 is a bit of a weird cas
by meddlepal 7y ago
Eh no. Let me also be clear I say this and cannot remember the date of Pearl Harbor, Cherynobl, or a number of other major events.
9/11 is a bit of a weird case in that the name of the event is also the event itself... that usually does not happen.
Please label your dates folks (except 9/11 I guess...)
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoI remember the Fourth of July! And New Year's Day, and Cinco de Mayo. Not so weird?
- meddlepal 7y agoI don't usually remember Cinco de Mayo :>
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoBut you remember when it is? And who's buried in Grant's Tomb?
- meddlepal 7y agoGrant who?
- owl57 7y agoThat's just US-centric. For example, you probably don't know off the bat what happened on 22.06.41 either, but if someone buys an ad in a Russian newspaper encoding these figures, it would be perfectly reasonable to say "everyone knows".
- gwd 7y ago"Tiananmen Square" is the English name for the event. The name in Chinese is the "June 4th Incident", much like 9/11 in English. Since the blog is in English, a "translation" might have been helpful; but since he goes so much into Mandarin, perhaps he assumes his readers are already familiar with the Chinese name.
- paublyrne 7y ago"9/11" is not generally referred to as such outside the US, and would more usually be described as the September 11th Attacks. Also a date, but less numerical.
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- amaccuish 7y agoI'd prefer September the 11th. I can never tell from dates if the day isn't over 12 whether it's in american or everywhere else date format.
- themaninthedark 7y agoDecember 7th 1941 a date which will live in infamy.