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It's Twenty Ten, Not Two Thousand and Ten
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I just watched the news tonight. It looks like the media is calling it Twenty Ten so that is what will catch on. I like Twenty Ten. It sounds cool and takes us back to how we always said the year before 2000. From 2000-2009 there wasn't really a good way to say it without using Thousand.
Happy Twenty Ten or however you prefer to pronounce it.
Happy Twenty Ten or however you prefer to pronounce it.
If it's a major media outlet, then the phrase will catch on. It's funny how if somebody or some organization (like CBS News or somebody that big) uses a new, barely known term, it becomes a part of our culture.
Being older and not knowing the latest trends of those younger, when I watched TV/movies or read popular magazines, I picked up the terms slacker, phat, and beeeeatch.
In Earth time, it's 4,551,327,414 (give or take).
Or in Unix Time, it's 1262417621 right now.
Best as I can tell, those are the only measures with any real meaning.
Or in Unix Time, it's 1262417621 right now.
Best as I can tell, those are the only measures with any real meaning.
English speakers are lazy nowadays so it'll definitely be called twenty ten. Rolls off the tongue easier.
Oh and, who gives a crap? The media tried the same "what should we call it" nonsense in 2000 and no one cared then either.
Oh and, who gives a crap? The media tried the same "what should we call it" nonsense in 2000 and no one cared then either.
He's okay. He just said '0 ten'. Since the year is 2010, 010 does exist in the year. He's technically correct with his own construct of how to say it.
He's okay. He just said '0 ten'. Since the year is 2010, 010 does exist in the year. He's technically correct with his own construct of how to say it.
'0 ten' could be used as an abbreviation but you can't use 'twenty 0 ten'.
I agree with this post 100%. just call it "two thousand ten" that makes sense. "Twenty ten" sounds so obnoxious.So what were we supposed to call the past nine years? twenty o' nine? twenty o' three? No. We called those years two thousand four, two thousand seven. Did we call 1905 nineteen thousand five or nineteen o' five? It changes sometimes, it doesn't matter what we called the years decades ago.
I'm tired of your threads where you try and present your thoughts as facts, we don't need a new Tallest Skil.
Here in Norway, the official Norwegian Language Council has decided for us: They think it should be "two thousand and ten" (totusenogti) and NOT "twenty ten" (tjueti), so they've - yet again when faced with multiple options when deciding what should be considered proper Norwegian - in their infinite wisdom chosen the one with the most syllables, which therefore will be the least natural thing to say...
I don't know what I'll end up using the most, but I guess I'll end up using the shortest form, "twenty ten", the most...
I don't know what I'll end up using the most, but I guess I'll end up using the shortest form, "twenty ten", the most...
I think you people really have too much time spare...
It's pronounced: WhoGives-a-Flying-Mongoose what it is called?!
It's pronounced: WhoGives-a-Flying-Mongoose what it is called?!
Maybe we should default to Zager And Evans!
"In The Year 2525..."
That was supposed to be some way out time in the future and it's closing in! We've already gone beyond George Orwell's and Lost In Space future time.
Ha! So I'm not the only one walking around with that tune in my head! When that song first came out, those years sounded so foreign. We're not really closing in, but we've turned the corner...
True.
At one time I thought 40 year olds were old.
Now they seem like young squirts! Ha ha!
At least it is a good tune!
ok, i have to ask, as i am/was a member of c/o 2010, what do the high school seniors call this? Everyone at my HS called it c/o "Oh 10"
It's two thousand ten. It was two thousand nine. It will be two thousand eleven. No "and" included. When writing a check,"and" denotes a decimal point. Two thousand ten and change. Being that time is money, money is time, wouldn't it be more fitting to number both along parallel lines?
But was it, nineteen hundred eighty or nineteen eighty, nineteen hundred ninety nine or just nineteen ninety nine. What comes after nineteen. Twenty, not two thousand.