ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
2024-11-20T17:38:04.000Z
we're voting on style guide things at work and my american coworker feels betrayed because i keep agreeing with the british team members lmao
latest #14
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
2024-11-20T17:38:15.000Z
we write in american english but formatting on some things like
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
2024-11-20T17:38:20.000Z 2024-11-20T17:40:07.000Z
sorry the american way is WRONG
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
2024-11-20T17:38:28.000Z
and they are like
"you are such a weird american"
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ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
2024-11-20T17:38:34.000Z
i lived in a weird place ig lol
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
2024-11-20T17:39:32.000Z
me, making a speech about why dates should go in this order:
them: no no we're agreeing with you
ᴡᴏʟᴠɪᴇ.
2024-11-20T17:40:51.000Z
lmao im in canada but i had to make the decision to stick w/ the americanized style for most things bc our american clients get so confused when its different
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
2024-11-20T17:42:54.000Z
discontinued: yeah and it SUCKS lol
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
2024-11-20T17:43:05.000Z
in most cases we do the american way but in this case we are doing dates in two different ways and have an opportunity to standardise
so i was like
"why not the happy medium which is writing it like
"01 February 2024" versus "February 01, 2024" or "2024-feb-01"
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
2024-11-20T17:46:03.000Z
god i need new airpods lol
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
2024-11-20T17:46:18.000Z
they die before an hour meeting is over but they are very old at this point
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
2024-11-20T17:47:42.000Z
this is kinda fun though ngl lmao
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
2024-11-20T17:47:57.000Z
just this round table of a bunch of people who are intensely nerdy about this topic
Becca
2024-11-20T21:29:42.000Z
Hahaha I love strong opinions about style guidelines
ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴡʏʀᴍ
2024-11-21T00:47:05.000Z
historein: i didn't even realise i cared that much until i no longer had 100% control over the style guidelines and now i realise i care a lot and my opinions are strong lmao
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