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Fri 1 Jan, 2010 12:07 am
I keep hearing TV persons hail the start of the new decade. One made the point, "The century is already one tenth over." I am one who believes the new decade begins in twelve months. Am I wrong?
@edgarblythe,
Yes, and y2k should have been a year earlier, too.
tsarstepan, for you it may be 2110, but for me in California it's the final hour of 2009, about a quarter past eleven.
More importantly, how does one verbalize the year? For some, it's still "two thousand and ten" - for others it's "twenty ten". I imagine that soon the "thousand and..." framing will sound rather quaint and turn-of-the-century-ish.
@Aa,
Well enjoy the New Year
Aa! I'm going to sleep now!
@Aa,
havent heard from you ina while. HAppy .
EDGAR, just a thought. Is it really not Jan 1 until midnight tonight?
@farmerman,
Your post is moot now. It's nearly 9AM, central.
@Aa,
Aa wrote:tsarstepan, for you it may be 2110, but for me in California it's the final hour of 2009, about a quarter past eleven.
wow, tsarstepan is 100 years ahead of us
they got hoverboards where you at tsar
@djjd62,
Where I am ... you don't need no stinking hoverboards! Take a little Melange and you to can travel anywhere!
DIS chu' botIvjaj! DIS chu' botIvjaj! Everyone!
@Aa,
Don't care what decade it is, they call it twenty-ten here
THRILLING to see Aa! Miss ya bunches and bunches of irises and roses and dandelions.
Whether you count a decade from 2010 to 2019 or from 2011 2020, it's still
ten years.
Makes more sense to me to start with 10, or 20, or whatever. That way all the
years have the same digit in the tens column.
Then there's the "year zero" problem . . .
@George,
Ther zero year was my problem. But, since I appear to be a minority, I give up. The century is one tenth used up already.
@tsarstepan,
(for the record, was that roy scheider or rob schneider?)
@Region Philbis,
Region Philbis wrote:
(for the record, was that roy scheider or rob schneider?)
i'm thinking it was Rob Roy
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