1950s-1980s America had complexity, they just overcame it, and you're used to this. Having a notion of 'case' or contractions at all (plenty of languages don't)

1950s-1980s America had complexity, they just overcame it, and you're used to this. Having a notion of 'case' or contractions at all (plenty of languages don't), the imperial system, the odd MM/DD/YYYY format.