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Old Apr 1, 2010 | 6:53 am
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Originally Posted by Renard
Aren't most FTers 'bilingual' with respect to these terms? Is this issue some kind of 'culture war' in an effort to show one way or the other is 'superior' or more 'pure'?
Quite. The US date format, to give just one example. Takes 0.05 seconds to work out the context.
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