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Re: 2010
Posted: Fri 29 Aug, 2008 14.09
by Jovis
Well done Tumble Weed, you've really got the point there.
Re: 2010
Posted: Fri 29 Aug, 2008 14.19
by wells
Tumble Tower wrote:Well I think 2010 will be pronounced "twenty ten".
Just like 2012 when talking about the forthcoming London 2012 Olympics, I've heard it pronouned "twenty twelve" on TV.
The sequence is as follows:
2008: two thousand and eight
2009: two thousand and nine
2010: twenty ten
2011: twenty eleven
2012: twenty twelve
2013: twenty thirteen
:
2019: twenty nineteen
2020: twenty twenty
2021: twenty twenty-one
etc. through two
2099: twenty nintety-nine.
What will 2100 then be called? Twenty-one hundred?
If only someone could develop a series of codes for these years, to simplify them for us all.
Re: 2010
Posted: Fri 29 Aug, 2008 14.21
by rob
wells wrote:Tumble Tower wrote:Well I think 2010 will be pronounced "twenty ten".
Just like 2012 when talking about the forthcoming London 2012 Olympics, I've heard it pronouned "twenty twelve" on TV.
The sequence is as follows:
2008: two thousand and eight
2009: two thousand and nine
2010: twenty ten
2011: twenty eleven
2012: twenty twelve
2013: twenty thirteen
:
2019: twenty nineteen
2020: twenty twenty
2021: twenty twenty-one
etc. through two
2099: twenty nintety-nine.
What will 2100 then be called? Twenty-one hundred?
If only someone could develop a series of codes for these years, to simplify them for us all.
I think you'll agree that's the last thing we want...
Re: 2010
Posted: Fri 29 Aug, 2008 14.59
by Nini
I think something just died in my brain.
Re: 2010
Posted: Fri 29 Aug, 2008 15.43
by cdd
I would enjoy the witty responses of Metropol's cream more, were it not for nobfrancis's brainless torrents of hot-headed anger.
Re: 2010
Posted: Fri 29 Aug, 2008 15.43
by cdd
I would enjoy the witty responses of Metropol's cream more, were it not for nobfrancis's brainless torrents of hot-headed anger. I mean, quite apart from the "pot calling the kettle black" hypocrisy...
Re: 2010
Posted: Fri 29 Aug, 2008 15.44
by Jovis
Would you enjoy it twice as much then?
Re: 2010
Posted: Fri 29 Aug, 2008 17.33
by Alexia
Tumble Tower wrote:No, I shalln't bother making codes for the years, they are themselves codes (4-digit numbers).
You're wrong cdd....er...TT... slight slip of the keyboard there. Ahem... They are not codes, they are actual (albeit shortened for convenience) names. They are not substitutes for something else - this is "The 2008th Year of the Common Era in the Gregorian Calendar." It's not "The Year of The Credit Crunch" or "The Year Of the Golden Cyclists."
Re: 2010
Posted: Mon 01 Sep, 2008 15.29
by rob
cdd wrote:I would enjoy the witty responses of Metropol's cream more, were it not for nobfrancis's brainless torrents of hot-headed anger.
And for that, I apologise, I was having a really bad day Friday. At least I had the weekend off.
Oh, and get my name right for fuck's sake.