• MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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        5 days ago

        i just got in an argument with all of lemmy not half an hour ago in my head and earlier than that in reality that no one else gets to claim american because i don’t know. i was on your side on this argument.

        • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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          5 days ago

          Maybe because of the caveat “technically” giving readers easy distinction between geographic American and the American nation? Or maybe just the bad luck of hitting the hivemind wrong.

      • Danquebec@sh.itjust.works
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        5 days ago

        No. She just says “in French” for the 24 hour system, and “in Spanish” for the 12 hour system, since that’s where she noticed the difference in our context.

    • hansolo@lemmy.today
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      5 days ago

      Either using both or mostly issuing 24h is a thing in the Eastern hemisphere, so Europe, Africa, and Asia. It’s not universally applied, but there’s lots of places that use it on things like telling you when a TV show will be on, for example.

      Par example