>>So if I ask you when you where born would you tell me year then month then day ?
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>Probably not, but only because that's the way we're conditioned. Ok, I hand you a pile of calendars. Do you open each one up and check the day, then discover that it's the wrong month, so you check the month, and then discovering it's the wrong year, go on to the second calendar in the pile and repeat the process? Or do you go to the proper year, open it to the proper month, and then to the day?
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>Which way makes more sense.

- got two news, one good one bad

- gimme good first

- we climbed seven floors, only two more to go.

- so what can be bad?

- we're in the wrong building. Maybe they'll have an elevator there in the other one...

(extend to "wrong city"...)