Birthday

[RicardoLuigi...]

well...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

...we americans are just....

 

special...

 

[Alien426]

Originally posted by Joshi

We want to find out when something happened and it comes up with 03/12/1986, is that the 3rd of december or the 12th of march.

Actually I wondered (disregarding the year), "is that my birthday or my grandpa's?".

 

Also, what's up with addresses? Why is the house number before the street in the States? And the zip code after the town? Youssa cawayzeee!!

[RicardoLuigi...]

1348 S. Finley Ave. (my old address)

 

i guess it's b/c...you're looking mainly for the house number.

 

and as for the zip code...

 

lombard, il 60148 (town where i used to live)

 

it's b/c zip codes are meaningless. just like newman in seinfeld says:

 

can i tell you something about zip codes?

 

 

...they're meaningless. hahaha!

[Joshi]

Originally posted by Alien426

Actually I wondered (disregarding the year), "is that my birthday or my grandpa's?".

 

Also, what's up with addresses? Why is the house number before the street in the States? And the zip code after the town? Youssa cawayzeee!!

 

It's pretty much the same in the UK.

 

How would you put it though? It seems reasonable that if the house is found on the street, is found in the county/state/whatever, is found in the town/city, is found in the country, then that's the order you'd put down, with house number first.

 

And post codes/zip codes are read by people at the post office. Rather than looking through the address for it, it's easier for them to just look at the bottom of the address for it, which is why we put it last.

[Alien426]

By your own rationale, Joshi, it should be sorted by size. So the lines make more sense in a zip/town and street/house order. The zip code will tell you a rough approximation of where the town is gonna be. Just take a look at the Zip Code Map (FRG) or zipdecode (USA).

 

Same with the street ("to you or to me?" situation ):

 

"Where do you live?" "Thirteen-fortyeight ..." "Awrigh, awrigh, don' tell me your fricken life story!"

or

"Where do you live?" "Finley Avenue" "Good god, that's on the other side of the town!"

[RicardoLuigi...]

but...after you say your house number, you say the street/boulevard/avenue/whatever...

 

and, i don't think people identify cities with their zip code, unless it's like "90210", that's obviously beverly hills :roll:

 

but that's it. if you say a town name though, like "las vegas" or "nyc" or "miami", everybody knows where those places are.

[DrMcCoy]

but if you say a town name like "braunschweig" and you're speaking to someone not living in lower saxony or even not living in germany, they're like "where the hell is that?"...

[Joshi]

Originally posted by Alien426

By your own rationale, Joshi, it should be sorted by size. So the lines make more sense in a zip/town and street/house order. The zip code will tell you a rough approximation of where the town is gonna be. Just take a look at the Zip Code Map (FRG) or zipdecode (USA).

 

Same with the street ("to you or to me?" situation ):

 

"Where do you live?" "Thirteen-fortyeight ..." "Awrigh, awrigh, don' tell me your fricken life story!"

or

"Where do you live?" "Finley Avenue" "Good god, that's on the other side of the town!"

 

By my own rationale, Alien, it should go from smallest to biggest. I said that the date should go this way, and so should addresses. Think about definition, how would you (well, how would I and anyone who wishes to agree with me) define today? Today is defined by the date, month and year, right? And from smallest to biggest, that would be date, mothn and year.

 

Well, how would I define a house using this logic? By it's smallest defining factor, the house number, then the street it's on (with date, it's the month it's in, gettit) and then the area, town, and so on and so forth.

 

And I don't know how things are done in america with Zip codes, but here in England, Postal Codes define everything down to the street, not just the town or area, which is why everyone on my street shares my postal code, but everyone on the street behind me has a slightly different one.

 

But if you talking about actually telling someone the whereabouts of where I live, I'd say I live in Duston, the area. I do this becaue most people who ask live in my town, so there's no point in saying that, and won't know every street in town, so I'd say the area instead. If they asked the whereabouts in Duston, then I'd say the street, and then if they knew ther place (which very few people do) I'd say which number (if of course they wanted to know and it wasn't a complete stranger or someone I couldn't trust, in which case, I live at 134, Frithte Place, Bruddy... it's up North). But on a letter or something, it would always be the number first, and then the rest, which is infact the formal way to right a letter nationwide, i don't know if it's the same everywhere (I think it is) but that's how we do it.