How will you pronounce 2010?

[iguana_tonante]

voi siete entrambi troppo fichi! will be my new facebook status update! Thanks iguana tonante!

You are welcome, but just to be sure: that means "you both are way too cool".

If you want the singular form, it's "xx è troppo fico", (xx is way too cool) or "io sono troppo fico" (I'm way too cool).

 

[Moocey]

I will most likely modify my current "Two Thousand and Nine" to "Two Thousand Ten".


J.

It's Twenty Ten. Just like we've been pronouncing years every decade except this past one.

 

[T'Girl]

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vinte dez, você escumalha gringo

 

[Nardpuncher]

voi siete entrambi troppo fichi! will be my new facebook status update! Thanks iguana tonante!

You are welcome, but just to be sure: that means "you both are way too cool".

If you want the singular form, it's "xx è troppo fico", (xx is way too cool) or "io sono troppo fico" (I'm way too cool).

I'm using it the way you first had it...I want to see which friends think it's about them (that's if they run it through an online translator or something!)

 

[ThankQ]

When saying or writing out numbers, the British will typically insert an and before the tens and units, as in one hundred and sixty-two or two thousand and three. In America, it is considered correct to drop the and, as in two thousand three.

Note that in American English, many students are taught not to use the word and anywhere in the whole part of a number, so it is not used before the tens and ones. It is instead used as a verbal delimiter when dealing with compound numbers. Thus, instead of "three hundred and seventy-three", one would say "three hundred seventy-three".

GRRRR to the American "and" people.
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Now, for all you people who say "Two Thousand", the only reason you do that is because you had nothing else to call the FIRST year but "two thousand" since, the number was, indeed, two thousand. Had we actually called that year, say, Twentyteen, you would have said "Twenty-oh-one" the next year... actually, for some reason that escapes all reasonable thought, many of you want to add EXTRA words! Stick an "and" in! Let's have some totally superfluous languange just to lengthen things up a bit. One person, infact, said this:

Two-thousand-and-ten is how I pronounce it. Every time I hear somebody say "twenty-ten" I feel like throwing a large, heavy object at their face. They usually put "carbon footprint", "credit crunch" or other buzzwords in the same sentence too.

Is that how you felt every time you heard someone say "Nineteen-ninety"?

Back in the year one-thousand, nine-hundred and ninety-nine, there was a lot of talk about what we'd end up calling the new decade/millenium. I was just relieved I wouldn't have to say so many syllables for a few years.

"One thousand, nine hundred and ninety" is a mouthful, "two thousand and ten" isn't really.

"Twenty-ten" is even LESS of a mouthful than "two thousand AND (why???) ten". You have stated that you're trying to keep your mouth as unfull as possible, yet you choose something that is the greater mouthful, then you ADD A WORD TO IT!, all this after saying "twenty-ten", the simplest way possible, makes you sick!

Hello McFly?

 

[iguana_tonante]

^^ That's really a weird topic to become so irate, ThankQ...

Putting "and" in there is at most half a syllable, and people tend to interject "hum", "hur" when speaking, you would hardly notice it.

 

[lady_trekkie_10]

probably twenty ten.

 

[sidious618]

^^ That's really a weird topic to become so irate, ThankQ...

I thought the same thing.

 

[Miss Chicken]

Why do we have to shorten what we say?

My son is Marcus but I never shorten his name to Marc even if it is a syllable shorter, nor do I call my son Daniel by the shortened form on his name. I often say cannot rather than can't. Sometimes I say television rather than TV etc. I see no reason to speak in the shortest way possible. I would rather speak in the most comfortable way and for me that is saying two thousand and ten rather than twenty ten. Other people understand me and life isn't so short that it makes much difference if I spend an extra half-second on the saying the year.

 

[RJDiogenes]

When saying or writing out numbers, the British will typically insert an and before the tens and units, as in one hundred and sixty-two or two thousand and three. In America, it is considered correct to drop the and, as in two thousand three.

Note that in American English, many students are taught not to use the word and anywhere in the whole part of a number, so it is not used before the tens and ones. It is instead used as a verbal delimiter when dealing with compound numbers. Thus, instead of "three hundred and seventy-three", one would say "three hundred seventy-three".

GRRRR to the American "and" people.
--

Now, for all you people who say "Two Thousand", the only reason you do that is because you had nothing else to call the FIRST year but "two thousand" since, the number was, indeed, two thousand. Had we actually called that year, say, Twentyteen, you would have said "Twenty-oh-one" the next year... actually, for some reason that escapes all reasonable thought, many of you want to add EXTRA words! Stick an "and" in! Let's have some totally superfluous languange just to lengthen things up a bit. One person, infact, said this:

Is that how you felt every time you heard someone say "Nineteen-ninety"?

Back in the year one-thousand, nine-hundred and ninety-nine, there was a lot of talk about what we'd end up calling the new decade/millenium. I was just relieved I wouldn't have to say so many syllables for a few years.

"One thousand, nine hundred and ninety" is a mouthful, "two thousand and ten" isn't really.

"Twenty-ten" is even LESS of a mouthful than "two thousand AND (why???) ten". You have stated that you're trying to keep your mouth as unfull as possible, yet you choose something that is the greater mouthful, then you ADD A WORD TO IT!, all this after saying "twenty-ten", the simplest way possible, makes you sick!

Hello McFly?

lol r u mad?

 

[RoJoHen]

"Twenty-ten" is even LESS of a mouthful than "two thousand AND (why???) ten". You have stated that you're trying to keep your mouth as unfull as possible, yet you choose something that is the greater mouthful, then you ADD A WORD TO IT!, all this after saying "twenty-ten", the simplest way possible, makes you sick!

Hello McFly?

Size doesn't always matter. I think "twenty-ten" sounds crappy, so I'll use something longer if I think it sounds less crappy.

 

[MANT!]

2010, I remember the movie from '84 and all the advertising called it twenty-ten, so that's stuck with me.....I mean it wasn't called Nineteen Hundred and Ten in the last century...So yes Twenty ten..

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086837/

 

[Nardpuncher]

And here's my thread on this i made about 2 months ago:
http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=108778

 

[RJDiogenes]

Well, my response was consistent, anyway.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

So was mine.

 

[Pingfah]

Twenty Hundred Plus Twenty Minus Ten.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Or "Thousand Thousand Ten," for those who think in Roman numerals.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

It will be the year that this happens.

Or "Thousand Thousand Ten," for those who think in Roman numerals.

MMX, eh? That's just sooo 1997:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_5Hf2n3VFE

 

[SVD]

Twenty-ten follows two-thousand nine for me

 

[Nomad V]

The wife answers telephone questions and the company she works for said that the year must be pronounced "two thousand and ten".