边城性格悲剧
So, two people commented (one email, one blog comment) with some confusion over the 11/9. Here's the explanation:
因此，有两个人对11/9发表了一些评论(一封电子邮件，一个博客评论)，有些困惑。 解释如下：
It was an internationalization joke (and a good one I thought) When we say 9/11 (formatted mmddyy) most people in the STATES assume we mean September 11. In the last two years the word'nineeleven'means more than just a date. But it's use and newly attached deep meaning underscores how alone we are as a nation (not just politically) in things like date formatting and the measuring systems. The rest of theplanetuses ddmmyy, so they would say "11/9".
这是一个国际化的笑话(我想这是一个很好的笑话)，当我们说9/11(格式化的mmddyy)时，美国大多数人都认为我们的意思是9月11日。在过去的两年中，“ nineeleven”一词的意义不仅仅在于约会。 。 但是它的使用和新近赋予的深层含义突显了我们作为一个国家(不仅在政治上)在日期格式和测量系统等方面的孤独程度。地球的其余部分使用ddmmyy，因此他们会说“ 11/9”。
The joke is, when we say "oh, ya, 9/11 was a horrible day," anon-american might say, "November 9th? What happened?" Of course, nothing happened on 11/9, we just assume that 9/11 or 4/3 or 8/12 means the same thing to us as it does to them...
这个笑话是，当我们说“哦，你，911是一个可怕的一天，”非-american可能会说，“11月9日？发生什么事了？” 当然，在11/9上什么也没有发生，我们只是假设9/11或4/3或8/12对我们来说对他们来说意味着相同的事情...
P.S. There was a local news report a while back that the local news had pulled off the AP NewsWire. Some fellow came in on a Tourist Visa and transferred to a Student Visa. At some point, he was arrested for some thing or the other and the local news lady, thinking this fellow had gotten away with some clever chicanery commented slyly that his identity was called into question when the news station "discovered" that his drivers license said he was born on 4/3 but his birth certificate listed his DOB as 3/4. Oh, those wacky terrorists trying to pull one over on us. If I had a nickel for every time an international friend reversed a date on aform...
附言：不久前有一份当地新闻报道说，当地新闻已经导致AP NewsWire退出。一些人持旅游签证入境，并转为学生签证。在某个时候，他因涉嫌其他事情和当地新闻女士而被捕，以为这个家伙已经逃脱了一个聪明的骗术，狡猾地评论说，当新闻台“发现”他的驾驶执照时，他的身份受到质疑。他出生于4/3，但他的出生证明将他的DOB列为3/4。噢，那些古怪的恐怖分子企图将我们拉倒。如果我每次有一个镍币，一个国际朋友都会在表格上取消日期。
翻译自: /blog/the-tragedy-of-november-9th
边城性格悲剧
