POLL: Smart Microsoft Word or Smart Aphex?

[aphex]

Read the following:

In his First Annual Message delivered to Congress on December 8, 1829, President Andrew Jackson stated his case supporting the voluntary emigration of Native Americans from their homelands in the southeast to a new location West of the Mississippi.




My question to you is (regarding the Underlined Date),

Should it be:

1) December 8, 1829, (Microsoft Word)

or

2) December 8th, 1829, (Joshua)

 

[Ameesh]

#1

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: Ameesh
#1

Then why did you vote for me?

 

[Colt45]

december eighth, eighteen-twenty-nine.

 

[WinkOsmosis]

8th... only morons write crap like "December 8". Say it out loud. Think about how much people would make fun of you if you said "December eight".

 

[zCypher]

I would say #1 is more formal/strict while #2 is the socially acceptable perhaps more "casual" but OK one...

dunno

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: zCypher
I would say #1 is more formal/strict while #2 is the socially acceptable perhaps more "casual" but OK one...

dunno

Well this is for a paper... So exactally how far up should the stick be lodged in my ass?

 

[fr]

I READ it as #2, but WRITE it as #1.

 

[Spyro]

Originally posted by: aphex

Originally posted by: zCypher
I would say #1 is more formal/strict while #2 is the socially acceptable perhaps more "casual" but OK one...

dunno

Well this is for a paper... So exactally how far up should the stick be lodged in my ass?

Until it comes outa your mouth.

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: WinkOsmosis
8th... only morons write crap like "December 8". Say it out loud. Think about how much people would make fun of you if you said "December eight".

there is a difference between what is written and what is spoken

 

[LeeTJ]

december 8, 1829.

you might say

eighth of December, 1829

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: LeeTJ
december 8, 1829.

you might say

eighth of December, 1829

mmm i like.

 

[WTT0001]

Certainly #2

 

[LeeTJ]

Originally posted by: aphex

Originally posted by: LeeTJ
december 8, 1829.

you might say

eighth of December, 1829

mmm i like.

it's that ordinal vs cardinal thing.

when saying 7th, 8th etc it is relative to the month. the 8th of december. but when you say december 8, 1829 it is absolute not relative.

it's like saying first, second, third.

 

[slydecix]

you say december 8th, but you usually don't write it, I believe you can change the autoformatting in MS word so it does read "December 8th," but when it's written, it's supposed to be December 8

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: fr
I READ it as #2, but WRITE it as #1.

exactly, its one of those

 

[bunker]

Originally posted by: fr
I READ it as #2, but WRITE it as #1.

What he said

 

[eplebnista]

Microsoft Word

 

[Zim Hosein]

I'm running Word XP and both are correct, what version are you running aphex?

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
I'm running Word XP and both are correct, what version are you running aphex?

xp

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: aphex

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
I'm running Word XP and both are correct, what version are you running aphex?

xp

Well when you hit F7, the only error it picks up is the capitalization of the word "West."

 

[BeauJangles]

for any official documents never include suffixes on numbers... ie December 8, xxxx not December 8th, xxxx

 

[aphex]

44 - 7

You guys SUCK

 

[tweakmm]

What kind of crackhead would write the date as December 8th, 1992?
I have never seen that ever

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: tweakmm
What kind of crackhead would write the date as December 8th, 1992?
I have never seen that ever

?!?