Not logical at all unless you are a native English speaker/American. If you are, it makes perfect sense. Since I am not one, I along with the person I saw asking that same question and other Europeans, I am constantly refused by it.

Language forms the way we think. Actually, the way a culture orders numbers has great effects on mathematical understanding. Try to do some simple math when your language orders numbers differently than the one you are learning. It's a fun experience.

No. But it's very interesting that this elicits such strong reactions from Americans. I guess most of them are not aware that it is done differently in many other parts of the world and rarely think about that American society doesn't set the status quo for all.

Thanks. Is that true for all English speaking countries? Must be somewhat hard for the UK since they are surrounded by nations doing it differently.

Well, are you American? You might read that answer reply I get about the person whose work computer defaulted to the American way and she was so confused by it she had the IT dptm change it.

That seems to be the most common answer I get too. An angry "rawr because we are Americans and we are awesome and that's how it's done asshole" kind of answer.

Also, you seem kind of angry. Are you having a bad time? Feel free to vent.

I know that it is that way. My question was WHY. There has to be a logical or historical reason.

I don't understand. Isn't it logical for Americans that it is first the day and then the month and then the year? Why do Americans think it's logical to go chronologically backwards?

So I saw a comment on another page regarding that new baby and I thought: Good point, I don't know.

Simple. Misogyny and money are the two most powerful forces that keep this planet going. I work at a publishing house for audio books. I complain about the endless thrillers starring sexualized violence about women - if I have to work on one more thriller of some serial killer raping and killing pretty young women -…

I was once suggesting that a commom factor of mass shootings is that they are overwhelmingly done by men (I'm sure there is the one odd female shooting there but I have never heard about one in the recent years) and one Gawker scum commenter here wents NUTS on me, talking about how non-violence was traditionally male…

Your incorrect spelling.

So are you not a native English speaker or is that some kind of pun I don't get?

Yes, somehow it makes you wonder how THAT person is fit to be responsible for caring for another being.

Question though: where are you and what stratification of Muslims do your friends belong to? Because there is a great difference between being Irshad Manji in Canada (whom I love) and migrants in the banlieues of France.

Yeah. I don't think you got what I said at all since you are repeating the very point I made in the beginning only somehow explaining it back at me.

No, it's rather a typical demonstration of the American incapability to express oneself. Everything is either over the top hyperbole "awesome" ( a term that isn't supposed to be used for that awesome orange you just ate but for something inspiring awe) or people are experiencing the lowest of the low as in "I just…

That looks like a very unhappy Christmas.

Yeah, except that the artile said exactly "she's been through hell". Stop backtracking here. Using that figure of speech was beyond tasteless and demonstrated a lack of writing skills by the writer but it's an American blog post writer so being tasteless is all she knows.