My son is a jedi?!

[Lindley]

It is how we refer to the manufacturing year at work.
-05 (2005) Volvo S60-R, -99 (1999) WV Golf 1.6. and its quite common where i'm from.

Spoiler: example

Around here that's usually done with an apostrophe, like '99, '05, etc. In the same way that the apostrophe replaces one or more letter in a contraction, it replaces the "implied" portion of the year.

A dash might be used in a listing like the image above, but not standalone.

 

[ares93]

Around here that's usually done with an apostrophe, like '99, '05, etc. In the same way that the apostrophe replaces one or more letter in a contraction, it replaces the "implied" portion of the year.

A dash might be used in a listing like the image above, but not standalone.

I can take a few scans of work orders if you like. I can assure you, thats what it says. The listing was merely an example. then only time we write the full year is when we work on old timers. then again, -12(1912) or -28(1928) can be confusing.

 

[Lindley]

Since I don't know where you are I can't say one way or the other. I'm just telling you what's a lot more common in the US.

 

[ares93]

Since I don't know where you are I can't say one way or the other. I'm just telling you what's a lot more common in the US.

oh, all right then. havent spent enough time in the states to notice such things so i wouldn't know. hell, i haven even spent a full 24 hours there... but here in sweden, and back home in hungary, this is the more common variation. judging from the papers that comes through the office, its the same in germany and the uk.

 

[Sector 7]

I have a similar story, if I may share it:

Background: My parents divorced when I was 4 years old. We never had contact with his side of the family until I was 14. At that time my paternal grandparents told my maternal grandmother and mom that they would like to meet us (4 siblings living).

True Story: One Saturday, we all went for a drive; Mom, Grandmother, my 3 siblings and me. They did not tell us where we were going, but they dressed us up as one would for a special visit back then. At one point, I said, "I know where we are going. Turn right here... later and then turn left there and it's the brown house on the corner. There's an old bald guy in the back with a tshirt and striped bell-bottom pants in the back yard and a real fat lady on the sofa inside."

My grandmother, a pentecostal holy-roller minister, turned around to look at me like she had seen either God or the Devil and screamed, "How do you know that?!"

I told her I had dreamed about it the night before. Every detail was exactly how I described it. My grandfather was bald; my grandmother was buried years later in a piano case, because she could not fit in a coffin; their house in Dayton, Ohio was exactly as I described it... including the clothing Pop was wearing!

From that day forward, my grandmother was skittish around me. She believed in visions from God, but could not accept it when coming from her grandson.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

You're lucky the cop wasn't a Trekkie.

LOL!!!

 

[ares93]

I have a similar story, if I may share it:

Background: My parents divorced when I was 4 years old. We never had contact with his side of the family until I was 14. At that time my paternal grandparents told my maternal grandmother and mom that they would like to meet us (4 siblings living).

True Story: One Saturday, we all went for a drive; Mom, Grandmother, my 3 siblings and me. They did not tell us where we were going, but they dressed us up as one would for a special visit back then. At one point, I said, "I know where we are going. Turn right here... later and then turn left there and it's the brown house on the corner. There's an old bald guy in the back with a tshirt and striped bell-bottom pants in the back yard and a real fat lady on the sofa inside."

My grandmother, a pentecostal holy-roller minister, turned around to look at me like she had seen either God or the Devil and screamed, "How do you know that?!"

I told her I had dreamed about it the night before. Every detail was exactly how I described it. My grandfather was bald; my grandmother was buried years later in a piano case, because she could not fit in a coffin; their house in Dayton, Ohio was exactly as I described it... including the clothing Pop was wearing!

From that day forward, my grandmother was skittish around me. She believed in visions from God, but could not accept it when coming from her grandson.

Yeah, I get the same thing. Although I consider myself religious, i find it rather preposterous.

but the other thing, my "sixth sense" if you will, i cant explain. but i've learned to trust it. saved my ass on a number of occasions.

 

[iguana_tonante]

(more seriously, I've never seen the hyphen used this way.)

It is how we refer to the manufacturing year at work.
-05 (2005) Volvo S60-R, -99 (1999) WV Golf 1.6. and its quite common where i'm from.

Cool. Here in Italy we use the apostrophe, like Lindley said for the US. I will try to remember that, it might be an useful information.

 

[ares93]

Cool. Here in Italy we use the apostrophe, like Lindley said for the US. I will try to remember that, it might be an useful information.

Really? 'Cause I've noticed that they use both in italy. I know ferrari uses the apostrophe, but its rather mixed with the other companies. Well, each to its own is suppose.

 

[iguana_tonante]

I don't work in the automotive industry, so I don't know about that. In all the instances I've seen it, people use the apostrophe: even the official bureaucracy use it, so I think it's the standard practice. If Italian car companies use the hyphen, I'm starting to guess it is more about field of work than country.

 

[ares93]

I don't work in the automotive industry, so I don't know about that. In all the instances I've seen it, people use the apostrophe: even the official bureaucracy use it, so I think it's the standard practice. If Italian car companies use the hyphen, I'm starting to guess it is more about field of work than country.

perhaps, it would be an entirely plausible explanation. occupational hazard, eh?