Now before you Europeans or wannabes correct me over the US’s better and more logical format, jokingly claiming this really happened in February, ask yourself…are we English speakers more likely to say, “December 2nd” or “the Second of December?” Yeah, I thought so. I get the rationale behind the order of ascending values but my native language doesn’t always flow by comparative order. I can understand the Romantic family going the other direction because it’s normal with their adjective use, e.g. pay day = oggi di soldi, litterally “day of money,” which sounds annoying and pretentious. Some things get a pass, sadly, the “people of color” moniker thanks to the more efficient and equally accurate “colored people” getting hijacked into the racist connotation column for the foreseeable future.
I am going to miss all the symmetrical date stuff as 2022 will be less interesting in such matters. I am grateful to have lived in such a fun stretch despite the shit shows since 2001.