"Twenty-ten" or "Two-Thousand Ten"?

[John Picard]

Ten minutes past 8.

Brilliant!

 

[Geckothan]

Two-thousand-and-ten.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Are we going to have one of these Threads every couple of weeks?

People will say both "two thousand" and "twenty." Gradually, through the teens, it will more and more weight in favor of "twenty." By 2020, it will be all "twenty."

 

[Geckothan]

I will always use "two-thousand-and-x". "Twenty-x" reminds me of hippies and buzzwords and New Labour.

 

[Trekker4747]

How will you call it when it's 2010?
I'm going "twenty-ten" as it's what Im used to from the 1900s, and we've had 10 years of "two thousand" at the front, so why not change back.

Though I'm pretty sure around the media and all we'll hear a mix of the two.

I've decided that in 2010 I'm switching to "Twenty-x" and abandoning the two-thousand-x. It's time to say it right.

We're 10 years into the 21st century. Wicked weird.

Well, nine years. 2000 was still part of the 20th century.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Are we going to have one of these Threads every couple of weeks?

Until 2021.

People will say both "two thousand" and "twenty." Gradually, through the teens, it will more and more weight in favor of "twenty." By 2020, it will be all "twenty."

That's when scientists will crack the gene encoding human hindsight. (Of course, looking back, one might argue we've already mastered it.)

 

[Rii]

I will always use "two-thousand-and-x". "Twenty-x" reminds me of hippies and buzzwords and New Labour.

"Twenty" is an ugly word, no doubt about it. Same goes for "thirty", "forty", etc.

Maybe in French ... vingt dix?

 

[Candlelight]

We're 10 years into the 21st century. Wicked weird.

Well, nine years. 2000 was still part of the 20th century.

Lets not start that shit again.

2000 was the first year of the 21st century.

Absolutely everyone everywhere thinks so.

And it's Twenty-Ten. Sounds cooler.

 

[Miss Chicken]

Well, nine years. 2000 was still part of the 20th century.

Lets not start that shit again.

2000 was the first year of the 21st century.

Absolutely everyone everywhere thinks so.

And it's Twenty-Ten. Sounds cooler.

Not everybody. I always thought it was the last year of the 20th century.

Maybe that is because at school we learnt that Australia because a nation of 1 Jan 1901 - the first day of the 20th century.

 

[Roshi]

^^ He's pulling your leg, Miss Chicken!

 

[Trekker4747]

Lets not start that shit again.

2000 was the first year of the 21st century.

Absolutely everyone everywhere thinks so.

There was no year zero.

A century is 100 years.
A millenium is 1000 years.

1 + 1000 is 1001 plus another 1000 is 2001.

The twenty-first cenutry began on January 1, 2001.

Absolutely everyone who knows math knows so.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Lets not start that shit again.

2000 was the first year of the 21st century.

Absolutely everyone everywhere thinks so.

There was no year zero.

A century is 100 years.
A millenium is 1000 years.

1 + 1000 is 1001 plus another 1000 is 2001.

The twenty-first cenutry began on January 1, 2001.

Absolutely everyone who knows math knows so.

I swear to Zeus that I will carve out your heart with a spork if you start this argument again for the fortieth time.

 

[Kestra]

Absolutely everyone who knows math knows so.

Math is overrated.

 

[Candlelight]

Not everybody.

EVERYBODY EVERWHEEEEEERRRRRREEEEEEEE!!!!

 

[chrisspringob]

I will always use "two-thousand-and-x". "Twenty-x" reminds me of hippies and buzzwords and New Labour.

So you're actually going to call 2011 "two thousand and eleven"? Say "two thousand and eleven" a few times, and think about all the time you're going to waste with those unnecessary extra syllables. This is why everyone is going to adopt the twenty-xx notation by 2011.

 

[Rii]

If you're concerned about efficiency then there's no reason not to drop the "20" entirely. If you can't work out which century you're in than that's your affair.

 

[Trekker4747]

I swear to Zeus that I will carve out your heart with a spork if you start this argument again for the fortieth time.

Well, if people would simnply figure out how to add 100 to 1...

 

[chrisspringob]

If you're concerned about efficiency then there's no reason not to drop the "20" entirely. If you can't work out which century you're in than that's your affair.

Sometimes you have to add the "twenty" to clarify that you're talking about a year. For example, "The housing market should improve in '11." If you're saying that out loud, it sounds like you might be using some kind of shorthand for something like 11 weeks or 11 months or something. Better to just say "The housing market should improve in 2011", and avoid that kind of confusion.

 

[STIntergalactic]

I will always use "two-thousand-and-x". "Twenty-x" reminds me of hippies and buzzwords and New Labour.

So you're actually going to call 2011 "two thousand and eleven"? Say "two thousand and eleven" a few times, and think about all the time you're going to waste with those unnecessary extra syllables. This is why everyone is going to adopt the twenty-xx notation by 2011.

I find the wording "twenty eleven" awkward to say, no matter how much I repeat it to myself. Instead of "two thousand and eleven" (as you suggest) I believe I'll end up using "two thousand eleven" thus dropping a syllable. I believe it has a certain pop that way.

 

[Tiberius Jim]

In "Back to the Future, Part II," Doc Brown says their in the year Twenty Fifteen. That man practically raised me, so therefore I'll be saying Twenty Ten.

This.