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[–] shukufuku@lemmy.ml 38 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] anonymoose@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 37 points 2 years ago (8 children)

How I wish for the day English decides to upend everything and go phonetic with a truncated alphabet and word modernization.

We'd then go to World Standard Time. It's 13:00 everywhere, not just in specific time zones. We then go to a Year 12023 Human Era International Fixed calendar.

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm with you for the alphabet and human era, but what's the thing about timezones? We'd still have to keep track of each area's normal waking/business hours, but it'd be less standardized and harder to remember unless there's something I'm missing.

[–] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

The time zone thing means if the time on your clock reads 00:00 hours, it's 00:00 hours everywhere.

That means if I say I have a meeting at 14:00 with someone in China while I live in the USA, there's no conversion. It's 14:00 everywhere. Every clock reads the same. I know when to be on the call.

All it does is change what time people arbitrarily 'Get up', 'Fall asleep', 'start school' etc.

Say we arbitrarily say 00:00 is what 'midnight' would be in Britain at the Prime Meridian.

That means nothing really changes for Britain. But in Central Time USA, 00:00 means it's when we're just starting dinner.

No daylight savings times anywhere. Work places can set their own work times however they want. Nobody gets confused about having to convert time to different time zones for logistics which is the biggest benefit. If the ISS says it'll be over New York City at 13:37, I'll know exactly when to turn on my HAM radio.

I'd wake up at 13:00, get breakfast, be into work at 14:00. Get home at 22:00, etc.

[–] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (3 children)

You've literally just shifted the problem, those two businessmen now have to both figure out what hour their daily cycle starts on, to assess if they will be free or not during the time. The idea of "business hours" would just be "so what hours on the 24h clock are you 'at work' at?'"

Same problem, different calculation.

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[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

There'd still be "timezones" where the divisions on what times everyone lives by are drawn, right? Like, in this state business hours are 14:00 to 22:00, and over at this other place it's 00:00 to 08:00. For simplicity and commerce those boundaries would likely look very much like timezones...

You'll still need to convert to the local time like we do now in order to know what part of the day that time is, but instead of doing that conversion once, you'll then you do it for all sorts of things and keep track of all the different times everything is in that other place too. Currently, you can look up the time it is somewhere (or add/subtract a number of hours if you're old-school) and when you see it's 8am, you know it's morning there. If there are no timezones, knowing it's 8am doesn't actually tell you anything anymore.

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[–] CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (18 children)

Plus a bunch of people would have the day turn over into the next day in the middle of the work day, which would be pretty inconvenient.

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[–] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How I wish for the day English decides to upend everything and go phonetic with a truncated alphabet and word modernization.

Also, drop the whole uppercase and lowercase nonsense. Just pick one!

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

UPPERCASE IT IS, WE LOUD NOW

[–] Mandarbmax@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

THE QUIET UPSETS SLANESH

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[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Hey smack me if you said 'dragon" and " jragon" out loud.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

I'm just gonna give you a small flick on the ear since I tried but am physically unable to pronounce "jragon".

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] Ulfenstein@feddit.nu 4 points 2 years ago
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[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (3 children)

What accent is this? In mine the D is hard and it sounds different

[–] i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

You don't want to hear about my hard D? Why not? Is there some reason why I shouldn't talk about it? Very well, would you like me to show you it?

[–] diaphanous@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is a great video explaining the phenomenon

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[–] Cosmicomical@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

English language doesn't have an alphabet - change my mind (especially british, but american only made one step in the right direction and then stopped)

[–] mcmoor@bookwormstory.social 21 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] Cosmicomical@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

But it's really not a fun fact

[–] Cosmicomical@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Exactly! That's the most appropriate description!

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[–] Konstant@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Jragon deez nuts on your face.

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago
[–] Resol@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't know why I can actually tell the difference phonetically between "dragon" and "jragon", maybe I just pronounce things weirdly.

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think it's because d and j are different letters and are pronounced different.

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[–] sigh@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago
[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago (6 children)

J is often /d3/ in English so yea there's a D

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[–] hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

In high school, I wrote a play for my creative writing class where I named the main character Jrue—named after Jrue Holiday, one of my favorite basketball players.

I remember the teacher got a kick out of it.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

I'm sure the Swedes would find a way yo fuck it up. "Yeah-ragon" or "Ji-ragon" or something.

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[–] Tugboater203@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

This thread and all its comments make me itchy.

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