counter point: cinco de mayo. and day/month/year just makes sense from an ascendancy standpoint, smallest unit to largest unit. do you tell time minute:hour:second? =p
sbb that's Spanish. They put their adjectives after their nouns, so they're a mess to begin with. We write out our dates, "December 25, 2011" so we abbreviate them the same, "12/25/11." The metric system is for losers too, and men named Jan are an abomination.
TPJ: Jan the woman's name is usually short for Janice or Janet, and pronounced with a soft G sound. Jan the man's named is pronounced like "yahn," so they're very different things.
the name "issue" and relation with the genders depends on the countries and even continents, you come from/ live in, combined with the main language of the nationalities.
i can see the confusion with the typical assigned gender of the name JAN as a female for english speaking nations due the different pronunciation.
but nobody in europe (perhaps english speaking countries excluded) for example would assume, that JAN is a females name, nor the short version of janet/janette or janice. so, where i come from JAN is a complete name for a male and it would never be chosen for a female. and i maybe even would say, that people from the UK are used to jan as a male as well, because it is a very common and often given name in the neighbor countries...
so, i stop this name analyzation now and let toys be our priority
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Shankweather
432 4 822
12 years ago
Should be "gray"
SillyK
154 1426 1657
12 years ago
i love this picture and how beautifully those squbes fit on each other
elissa_s
388 689 743
12 years ago
Shankweather, I think the gray/ grey thing has already been sorted, that's why it's tagged as grey :)
ToyPunkJan
1881 1896 2109
12 years ago
Pure minimalism. Nice grey too!
I would definitely love to have several Squbes in different colours and build a wall.
Shankweather
432 4 822
12 years ago
Elissa I was just trying to be a dumb Yank. I think we're the only ones that spell it that way.
Shankweather
432 4 822
12 years ago
TPJ this will be #7 for me, and they are fun to stack.
elissa_s
388 689 743
12 years ago
Oh, okay, I'm glad you put it that way. What else I don't get... putting the month before the freaking day of the year! :D
Shankweather
432 4 822
12 years ago
No we do that one right. That's how you say it, "May 5th." Nobody says "5th of May." Notice how I put the periods inside the quotes, too.
ToyPunkJan
1881 1896 2109
12 years ago
5. Maj
sbbenhcs
71 20 29
12 years ago
counter point: cinco de mayo. and day/month/year just makes sense from an ascendancy standpoint, smallest unit to largest unit. do you tell time minute:hour:second? =p
ToyPunkJan
1881 1896 2109
12 years ago
Why would you take an old male name like Jan and change it into female? Why? Why?
And what about Kim? Bo?
Shankweather
432 4 822
12 years ago
sbb that's Spanish. They put their adjectives after their nouns, so they're a mess to begin with. We write out our dates, "December 25, 2011" so we abbreviate them the same, "12/25/11." The metric system is for losers too, and men named Jan are an abomination.
CaptDNA
87 39 102
12 years ago
Haha those are some pretty intense statements Shank. On behalf of Canada, we love all of you and your systems, and would like everyone to get along.
Shankweather
432 4 822
12 years ago
All in good fun!
TPJ: Jan the woman's name is usually short for Janice or Janet, and pronounced with a soft G sound. Jan the man's named is pronounced like "yahn," so they're very different things.
SillyK
154 1426 1657
12 years ago
the name "issue" and relation with the genders depends on the countries and even continents, you come from/ live in, combined with the main language of the nationalities.
i can see the confusion with the typical assigned gender of the name JAN as a female for english speaking nations due the different pronunciation.
but nobody in europe (perhaps english speaking countries excluded) for example would assume, that JAN is a females name, nor the short version of janet/janette or janice.
so, where i come from JAN is a complete name for a male and it would never be chosen for a female.
and i maybe even would say, that people from the UK are used to jan as a male as well, because it is a very common and often given name in the neighbor countries...
so, i stop this name analyzation now and let toys be our priority