For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don’t want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That’s ludicrous!

That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use “less” when they should use “fewer”

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    It’s the only way that makes sense to parse. Imagine if literally anything else worked with the minor amounts first.

    This thing costs 25 cents and 3,000 dollars

    The time is currently 45:9.

    This program is v11.7.9 and the next release is v0.8.9

    I don’t like “mixed number” format, like 1/4 and 648,3. I’d much rather say “five hundredths, two tenths, six ones, four tens, 8 hundreds and 3 thousand”

    I guess a lot less recipes would get overseasoned though.

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      What you’re saying makes s lot of sense, but how do you speak dates?

      When did you start working your current job? It was in 2022, Aprill 11th

      What’s your anniversary date? We were married on 2012, September the 9th.

      People don’t talk that way, which is how writing them down got to be the MMDDYYYY format in the first place. Technically, it was MMDDYY exclusively until mid 1999.

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        But why do people put the year last when speaking? It’s no less arbitrary. We were just socialized to say it that way, so now it “sounds more natural,” but it’s not.

        Also, speech doesn’t dictate writing. Do British people say “11th April” out loud?

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      But everybody still writes addresses as person, street, place, country what is the reverse of the logical order with biggest geographical element first.

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        Address are written for humans.

        For machines, the address line and postal code is the only important part, the rest is encoded in the postal code and can be left off.