gwnn Posted August 31, 2008 Report Share Posted August 31, 2008 eg 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akhare Posted August 31, 2008 Report Share Posted August 31, 2008 Twenty-ten -- trying to explain the movie title for the "2001..." sequel would be way too long without it :)... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
han Posted August 31, 2008 Report Share Posted August 31, 2008 I'll let you know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulg Posted August 31, 2008 Report Share Posted August 31, 2008 We don't do 2010 here, but it is definitely the real Olympics in twenty-twelve. p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
han Posted August 31, 2008 Report Share Posted August 31, 2008 Oh I would definitely call that two thousand and twelve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jillybean Posted August 31, 2008 Report Share Posted August 31, 2008 We don't do 2010 here, but it is definitely the real Olympics in twenty-twelve. p LOL thats exactly what I said when Vancouver won the Olympic bid and now I think my Canadian Citizenship application is in jeopardy. Its taken very seriously and lord, an obscene amount of money is spent on these events. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted August 31, 2008 Report Share Posted August 31, 2008 Two thousand ten. It would never occur to me to say twenty-ten, just as it would never occur to me to say that I paid twenty-ten dollars for something. Does anyone say the current year as twenty-eight? With so many votes for twenty-ten I obviously am missing something but I just don't get it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jillybean Posted August 31, 2008 Report Share Posted August 31, 2008 Two thousand ten. It would never occur to me to say twenty-ten, just as it would never occur to me to say that I paid twenty-ten dollars for something. Does anyone say the current year as twenty-eight? With so many votes for twenty-ten I obviously am missing something but I just don't get it. I think we are just past it Ken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted August 31, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 31, 2008 I think this year would be twenty ough eight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PassedOut Posted August 31, 2008 Report Share Posted August 31, 2008 Twenty-ten. Just like I used to say "nineteen-ninety-nine" instead of "one-thousand-nine-hundred-ninety-nine." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted August 31, 2008 Report Share Posted August 31, 2008 McKinley beat Bryan in the nineteen hundred election, not the one thousand nine hundred election. Bush beat Gore (well, sort of) in the two thousand election, not the twenty hundred, or the twenty oh oh, election. The teens have always been a special case, so 1910 and 2010 are not, I think, really comparable. I guess thought that after running it through my brain a bit, twenty ten doesn't seem quite so odd. Maybe a bit like a reading at the optometrist's. Two thousand ten still seems far more natural to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pclayton Posted August 31, 2008 Report Share Posted August 31, 2008 Battle of Hastings - Ten Sixty-Six Magna Carta - Twelve Fifteen Declaration of Independence - Seventeen Seventy Six. The War of Eighteen Twelve. Death of Attila: Four fifty three. It would make no sense to use the term 'hundred or thousand' in any of these cases. Years like 1900 are the exception, not the rule. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matmat Posted August 31, 2008 Report Share Posted August 31, 2008 Ten Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerben42 Posted August 31, 2008 Report Share Posted August 31, 2008 two thousand and ten. How do you call this decade anyway? The zeroes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMB1 Posted September 1, 2008 Report Share Posted September 1, 2008 How do you call this decade anyway? The zeroes?"this decade" :huh: What I will refer to it after 2010, I don't know. I don't think I have a name for the decade including 1901-1909 - except "the first decade of the century". Robin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianshark Posted September 1, 2008 Report Share Posted September 1, 2008 How do you refer to the year mentioned above? [2010]Twenty-Ten Years like 1900 are the exception, not the rule.Nine-teen hundred How do you call this decade anyway? The zeroes?I've heard it called the 'noughties'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al_U_Card Posted September 1, 2008 Report Share Posted September 1, 2008 How do you call this decade anyway? The zeroes?"this decade" :) What I will refer to it after 2010, I don't know. I don't think I have a name for the decade including 1901-1909 - except "the first decade of the century". Robin Too warm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerben42 Posted September 1, 2008 Report Share Posted September 1, 2008 I don't think I have a name for the decade including 1901-1909 - except "the first decade of the century". Of last century, anyway... Too warm. Depends on where you live, I guess... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skjaeran Posted September 1, 2008 Report Share Posted September 1, 2008 Personally I prefer twenty-ten, in Norway we officially say totusenogti (twothousandandten) whereas in Sweden it's officially tjue-ti (twenty-ten). Twenty-ten is in line with nineteen-ninetynine, twelve-fortynine etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted September 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 1, 2008 I wonder, in german it's zwanzighundert-zehn? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerben42 Posted September 1, 2008 Report Share Posted September 1, 2008 I wonder, in german it's zwanzighundert-zehn? Zweitausend-zehn. There is this famous football song around here that goes like '54, '74, '90 - zweitausend-zehn, expressing hope to win the world cup for the 4th time in South-Africa. Strangely there is no song yet about 2009, when Germany will participate in the Bermuda Bowl for the first time... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimG Posted September 1, 2008 Report Share Posted September 1, 2008 Personally I prefer twenty-ten, in Norway we officially say totusenogti (twothousandandten) whereas in Sweden it's officially tjue-ti (twenty-ten). There are official ways of saying the year? Made official by whom? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al_U_Card Posted September 1, 2008 Report Share Posted September 1, 2008 I vote for this decade to be called the o-o's (pronounced uh-oh) as in how you react when you hear about something during this decade...lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al_U_Card Posted September 1, 2008 Report Share Posted September 1, 2008 En français c'est definitivement "deux mille dix". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted September 1, 2008 Report Share Posted September 1, 2008 I asked my wife, withholding my own preference. It took her a while to get past the shock that I was spending time discussing this matter but then she went with "I prefer two thousand ten but I think most people will say twenty ten". An easy going person, my wife. I think I will follow her lead. I managed to avoid the intense debate about whether the previous millennium ended on December 31 of 1999 or 2000. We all survived the lack of consensus on that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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