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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

But "Coffee fourth"/"fourth coffee" and "23rd July"/"July 23rd" are different things. I don't think it's a good comparison.

With the coffees you are counting how many you've had. The thing being counted is explicitly stated in the phrase.

With dates, you are not counting the number of July's. This isn't my 23rd July, but the 23rd day of this July. The thing being counted is only implied by colloquial understanding.

So yes, "coffee fourth" doesn't work, but that doesn't have much bearing on how to say a date in my opinion

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You're right, but the same must be said for July 23rd. Both are abbreviating "day in the month of july" to a simple mention of the month.

At the end of the day both work, both are equally efficient, and simply come down to habit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah, that's my thinking too. English, and language in general, is very fluid. Different regions will have different colloquialisms, and even different dialects of the same language. So long as we all understand what is meant does it really matter all that much how it was said?