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It's Twenty Ten, Not Two Thousand and Ten

IntheNet said:
There are far too many ruining our language with stylistic abbreviations, acronyms, and other linguistic mechanisms to shorten our wonderful way of communication. Simply because some nut says that something is "easier, faster, and shorter" does not make it right! When the year two-thousand and nine passes to the year two-thousand and ten this evening we need to make an effort not to bow to the politically-correct metaphors, abbreviations, acronyms and give the time and date the right accord of pronunciation...
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When pronouncing numbers you never say "and" unless you're adding. It's 'two thousand nine', not 'two thousand and nine'. Thanks for butchering the English language! :)

That is unless you write 2,000+10 when you're talking about years, then, of course, I stand corrected.
 
Peterkro said:
Jesus Christ on a bicycle,I never thought I'd live to see the day I agreed with IntheNet on anything at all,fantabulous.
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I will call it two thousand and ten, just because it sounds right to me and twenty zero zero, twenty zero one etc. would have sounded completely wrong before it.

But in the last century, I used nineteen ninety nine because it sounded right and not one thousand nine hundred and ninety nine which would have been a right mouthful. :)

Peterkro said:
I think you'll find your talking of American English not English.
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Bloody foreigners! ;)
 
IntheNet said:
There are far too many ruining our language with stylistic abbreviations, acronyms, and other linguistic mechanisms to shorten our wonderful way of communication. Simply because some nut says that something is "easier, faster, and shorter" does not make it right! When the year two-thousand and nine passes to the year two-thousand and ten this evening we need to make an effort not to bow to the politically-correct metaphors, abbreviations, acronyms and give the time and date the right accord of pronunciation...
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You mean like **** and things like that?
 
If one says "two thousand ten", "two thousand and ten", or "twenty ten", they know what you mean, so who really cares?
 
Are not both ways wrong? Take 1999 for example. I believe the appropriate old fashioned way is to say "in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and ninety nine". Therefore if you want to be correct in 2010 you will say "in the year of our Lord two thousand and ten". Then 1/1/2010 will be the First Day of January in the Year of our Lord two thousand and ten. If you say anything less when saying or writing dates you are just being lazy though it is difficult on forms and checks;).
 
velocityg4 said:
Are not both ways wrong? Take 1999 for example. I believe the appropriate old fashioned way is to say "in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and ninety nice". Therefore if you want to be correct in 2010 you will say "in the year of our Lord two thousand and ten". Then 1/1/2010 will be the First Day of January in the Year of our Lord two thousand and ten. If you say anything less when saying or writing dates you are just being lazy though it is difficult on forms and checks;).
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We'll confirm this when we get the first wedding invitations of 2010.
 
If we will be technical about it we should add the month in so it would be two thousand and ten and one twelfth.:p
 
Happy Holiday everyone! (I don't say happy new year because it could offend some people who don't celebrate new years yet, for example the chinese don't celebrate until early februray.)
 
rdowns said:
http://www.twentynot2000.com/
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Actually I'm going to call it MMX, the roman numeral for two thousand and ten. By the way if you're so insistant in calling it twenty ten, then what did you call 2009? If you refered to it as two thousand and nine then let me ask you how you would say 1809? Was that eighteen O nine? Well then 2009 should have been refered to as twenty O nine!
 
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