Ok folks do you say two thousand and ten or twenty ten
I say twenty ten myself , but was wondering
Depends on how broke and/or drunk I am at the time. :P
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May the Doughnut of Happiness follow you everywhere.
I find myself saying "twenty ten," just makes it easier and faster to say, like saying "oh nine" instead of two-thousand and nine.
Ok folks do you say two thousand and ten or twenty ten
I say twenty ten myself , but was wondering
Prolly will do 20-10 more, but either is fine as long as I don't hear more idjits calling it a new decade ::grumble:: Society needs to learn how to bloody well count!
thats just they way it's been for a very long time your decade is 0-9 to most people
thats just they way it's been for a very long time your decade is 0-9 to most people
A very long time? When did it change?
There is a connection.
If the decade ends in 2009 then it sould be 0-9 (which is kind of unfortunate for the fighter, paladin & ranger).
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thats just they way it's been for a very long time your decade is 0-9 to most peopleA very long time? When did it change?
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Well, logically, if it's the 1980's, say, why would 1980 not be part of the decade but 1990 would? Makes no sense.
And I'd go with 20 10 to answer the question. Although the decade could be fun. the Teenies. Like that won't cause problems with people looking at your Internet searches and hard drives. ;-)
And I'd go with 20 10 to answer the question. Although the decade could be fun. the Teenies. Like that won't cause problems with people looking at your Internet searches and hard drives. ;-)
Great, I'm going to get pop up ads for hard drive wiping utilities. :P
Twenty Ten.
Two-thousand-ten.
thats just they way it's been for a very long time your decade is 0-9 to most peopleA very long time? When did it change?
** spoiler omitted **
Well, logically, if it's the 1980's, say, why would 1980 not be part of the decade but 1990 would? Makes no sense.
And I'd go with 20 10 to answer the question. Although the decade could be fun. the Teenies. Like that won't cause problems with people looking at your Internet searches and hard drives. ;-)
Nope, no logic involved here. If we include the "0" ending years in the following decade, that means that the very first decade AD was only 9 years long, since there was no year 0 to count ... went from 1 BC to 1 AD.
Count your fingers ... that's a decade. Is your tenth finger part of your neighbor's ten? Nope, 1 to 10, one decade, 11 to 20, next decade, ad naseum.
maybe the first did have 9 years, but at lest in modern times folks count from 0
the 50's where not from 51-60 but 50-59, the 70's were not to 71-80 but 1970-1979. You might not agree but does not change common accepted usage
back to counting
2000-10=2
20-10=5
T-minus two years.
Whatever works for the moment.
I'm going with: two zero mark ten
T-minus two years.
+1
maybe the first did have 9 years, but at lest in modern times folks count from 0
the 50's where not from 51-60 but 50-59, the 70's were not to 71-80 but 1970-1979. You might not agree but does not change common accepted usage
back to counting
2000-10=2
20-10=5
I don't mean to threadjack, but I suggest you check:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%E2%80%932009
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium...
It is a pet peeve of mine ...
BTW, I say "Dois mil e dez" :p
I'm going with MMX, myself.
I don't mean to threadjack, but I suggest you check:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%E2%80%932009
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium...It is a pet peeve of mine ...
BTW, I say "Dois mil e dez" :p
Your first link states the 2000's were from January 1, 2000 and ended on December 31, 2009
somewhere year counting went from 1- 10 but now it pretty much goes from 0-9
A man in his 20's, ask him how long his 20's are. 21-30 or will he say 20-29. same thing your 40 or 50's are they 41-50 and 51-60 or 40-49 and 50-59
In most counting 1-10 is correct, but it has been 0-9 in years for a very long time, at lest my lifetime anyhow. You can say it's wrong all ya like, does not change the common usage
Common usage doesn't make it the correct usage. ;)
nope, but when has that stopped anything? It's not just "dumb" folks who use it as such, most people do and have for a very long time
I think it ties in to how we count age. As you start at 0 not 1, when you hit 10, there that 0 again, so we count age from 0-9 in decades, which is correct really as you do not start at 1.
So is it that odd folks count decades as starting on 0?
I blame No Child Left Behind. :P
I blame No Child Left Behind. :P
I blame:
o rock & roll music.
o Dungeons & Dragons
o the word 'like'
o and, the chinese hackers
I blame No Child Left Behind. :PI blame:
o rock & roll music.
o Dungeons & Dragons
o the word 'like'
o and, the chinese hackers
I actually blame the Y2K scare, because before that I never heard all this confusion of when thing the new decade, century, millenium, started. There's a reason the book was called 2001: A Space Odyssey
I actually blame the Y2K scare, because before that I never heard all this confusion of when thing the new decade, century, millenium, started. There's a reason the book was called 2001: A Space Odyssey
+1.
Decades are colloquially named after their numerical values. Thus the "Nineteen Twenties," cannot include 1930, because it has an invalid number in it, so must begin in 1920 and cease in 1929.
On the other hand, if you were to say the "One Hundred and Ninety-Second Decade of the Common Era According to the Technical Rules of the Monks Who Set Out the Calendar System," than that correctly would begin in 1921 and end in 1930. Of course, if you do this often then you can expect some ribbing on the grounds of extreme pretension ;-)
If people wish to evoke pedantry, then they should also be campaigning that Christmas should be moved to May and combined with New Year's Day whilst the entire Gregorian calendar is reset because there should be a 0 AD/CE, since Jesus was 0 at birth and turned 1 year old at the end of that first year (as with us all), not 1 year old at birth and turning 2 at the end of the first year, which is actually what the current system says (ignoring the fact he was actually born in 4 BC due to one of the monks forgetting about a short-lived Roman Emperor) and it's now actually 2014.
There's a reason the book was called 2001: A Space Odyssey
Kubrick and Clarke went through tons of different titles, rejecting several other years because they didn't scan very well. I don't recall either ODYSSEY (ACC's biography) or THE LOST WORLDS OF 2001 mentioning that they chose it because it was technically the first year of the 21st Century.
Also, after the film came out, they got called by some irate historians stating that the correct title is "Twenty Hundred and One," not the "Two Thousand and One," they'd been stating in interviews. Clarke later suggested the common usage of 'thousand' in referring to years the first decade of the 21st Century is purely down to the name and the colossal impact of the movie and book in the 1960s, and if they'd used 'Twenty Hundred' instead that might have been a lot more widespread now.
two-thousand and ten = 2000.10 arggghhhh!
In official capacity, I would say two-thousand ten (just saw a weather channel show where they were talking about the year two-thousand eight). In a more relaxed capacity, I would say twenty ten. So it depends on what situation I am speaking in. I would never say two-thousand and ten though.
