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Posted 2008-August-31, 05:21
... and I can prove it with my usual, flawless logic.
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Posted 2008-August-31, 10:53
Twenty-ten -- trying to explain the movie title for the "2001..." sequel would be way too long without it 
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Posted 2008-August-31, 11:00
I'll let you know.
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Posted 2008-August-31, 11:11
We don't do 2010 here, but it is definitely the real Olympics in twenty-twelve.
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Posted 2008-August-31, 11:17
Oh I would definitely call that two thousand and twelve.
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Posted 2008-August-31, 11:20
cardsharp, on Aug 31 2008, 10:11 AM, said:
We don't do 2010 here, but it is definitely the real Olympics in twenty-twelve.
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LOL thats exactly what I said when Vancouver won the Olympic bid and now I think my Canadian Citizenship application is in jeopardy. Its taken very seriously and lord, an obscene amount of money is spent on these events.
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Posted 2008-August-31, 11:28
Two thousand ten. It would never occur to me to say twenty-ten, just as it would never occur to me to say that I paid twenty-ten dollars for something. Does anyone say the current year as twenty-eight? With so many votes for twenty-ten I obviously am missing something but I just don't get it.
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Posted 2008-August-31, 11:29
kenberg, on Aug 31 2008, 10:28 AM, said:
Two thousand ten. It would never occur to me to say twenty-ten, just as it would never occur to me to say that I paid twenty-ten dollars for something. Does anyone say the current year as twenty-eight? With so many votes for twenty-ten I obviously am missing something but I just don't get it.
I think we are just past it Ken.
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Posted 2008-August-31, 11:32
I think this year would be twenty ough eight.
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Posted 2008-August-31, 11:33
Twenty-ten. Just like I used to say "nineteen-ninety-nine" instead of "one-thousand-nine-hundred-ninety-nine."
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Posted 2008-August-31, 12:00
McKinley beat Bryan in the nineteen hundred election, not the one thousand nine hundred election.
Bush beat Gore (well, sort of) in the two thousand election, not the twenty hundred, or the twenty oh oh, election.
The teens have always been a special case, so 1910 and 2010 are not, I think, really comparable.
I guess thought that after running it through my brain a bit, twenty ten doesn't seem quite so odd. Maybe a bit like a reading at the optometrist's. Two thousand ten still seems far more natural to me.
Bush beat Gore (well, sort of) in the two thousand election, not the twenty hundred, or the twenty oh oh, election.
The teens have always been a special case, so 1910 and 2010 are not, I think, really comparable.
I guess thought that after running it through my brain a bit, twenty ten doesn't seem quite so odd. Maybe a bit like a reading at the optometrist's. Two thousand ten still seems far more natural to me.
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Posted 2008-August-31, 12:16
Battle of Hastings - Ten Sixty-Six
Magna Carta - Twelve Fifteen
Declaration of Independence - Seventeen Seventy Six.
The War of Eighteen Twelve.
Death of Attila: Four fifty three.
It would make no sense to use the term 'hundred or thousand' in any of these cases.
Years like 1900 are the exception, not the rule.
Magna Carta - Twelve Fifteen
Declaration of Independence - Seventeen Seventy Six.
The War of Eighteen Twelve.
Death of Attila: Four fifty three.
It would make no sense to use the term 'hundred or thousand' in any of these cases.
Years like 1900 are the exception, not the rule.
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Posted 2008-August-31, 14:48
two thousand and ten.
How do you call this decade anyway? The zeroes?
How do you call this decade anyway? The zeroes?
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Gerben42, on Aug 31 2008, 09:48 PM, said:
How do you call this decade anyway? The zeroes?
"this decade"
What I will refer to it after 2010, I don't know.
I don't think I have a name for the decade including 1901-1909 - except "the first decade of the century".
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Posted 2008-September-01, 02:19
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How do you refer to the year mentioned above? [2010]
Twenty-Ten
pclayton, on Aug 31 2008, 06:16 PM, said:
Years like 1900 are the exception, not the rule.
Nine-teen hundred
Gerben42, on Aug 31 2008, 08:48 PM, said:
How do you call this decade anyway? The zeroes?
I've heard it called the 'noughties'.
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RMB1, on Sep 1 2008, 02:33 AM, said:
Gerben42, on Aug 31 2008, 09:48 PM, said:
How do you call this decade anyway? The zeroes?
"this decade"
What I will refer to it after 2010, I don't know.
I don't think I have a name for the decade including 1901-1909 - except "the first decade of the century".
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I don't think I have a name for the decade including 1901-1909 - except "the first decade of the century".
Of last century, anyway...
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Depends on where you live, I guess...
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Posted 2008-September-01, 06:37
Personally I prefer twenty-ten, in Norway we officially say totusenogti (twothousandandten) whereas in Sweden it's officially tjue-ti (twenty-ten).
Twenty-ten is in line with nineteen-ninetynine, twelve-fortynine etc.
Twenty-ten is in line with nineteen-ninetynine, twelve-fortynine etc.
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Posted 2008-September-01, 06:42
I wonder, in german it's zwanzighundert-zehn?
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