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I hear a lot of people saying that. Interesting, however, is that I, as European, don't even think twice about it[1]. My brain must be wired to look at the cont
by romland 15y ago
I hear a lot of people saying that. Interesting, however, is that I, as European, don't even think twice about it[1]. My brain must be wired to look at the context primarily.
Why that is, I can only take a stab at: I guess we see a lot more from you guys on the other side of the pond than you see from us. :)
[1] Comma overload -- my English teacher would kill me.
- TillE 15y agoI think the difference is that most Americans simply aren't exposed to various ways of writing dates, times, currencies, numbers, etc. on a regular basis. Even within Germany, there's no consensus about where to put the Euro sign (before or after). Americans don't write times like 20:00 and say "eight" aloud. After several years in Europe, I'm fairly adept at accepting all inputs.
- cpeterso 15y agoYour comment inspired this thought: Imagine a Firefox extension or Greasemonkey script that localizes web pages: converts dates, times, currencies, separators to the user's preference. :) Google Chrome will translate web page languages, which is a much more difficult problem.