New Decade?

@djjd62,

that was last night... Drunk

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@Region Philbis,

Region Philbis wrote:

Quote:
Rob Scheider
(for the record, was that roy scheider or rob schneider?)

I couldn't afford the appearance fee for Roy in my 2010 related well wishing while Rob's agent pretty much paid me to mention his name in my name drop!

BTW: It was Roy that was in 2010.
http://akas.imdb.com/name/nm0001702/

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@edgarblythe,

edgarblythe wrote:

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?

No. You're quite correct.
(Along with the rest of us old fogeys who insist that things like decades, centuries, and millenia begin with the year one, not the year zero.)

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@Merry Andrew,

I understand that it is simpler to group all the 10 digits together, so I decided to not fight it. But, I don't have to agree. Smile

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@edgarblythe,

edgarblythe wrote:

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?

No, you are not. And don't let some asshole on the teevee desperate for something to talk about convince you otherwise. We start numbering historical eras with the year one, not the year zero. 2000 was the last year of the twentieth century, and 2010 is the last year of the first decade of the 21st century.

So, you are right--the new decade begins in twelve months.

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Thanks, setanta. I knowed I was right, but so many think otherwise.

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@edgarblythe,

edgarblythe wrote:

Thanks, setanta. I knowed I was right, but so many think otherwise.

And then again -- so many don't think at all.

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@edgarblythe,

edgarblythe wrote:

Ther zero year was my problem.

It was.

edgarblythe wrote:

The century is one tenth used up already.

SO STIPULATED.

David

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To tsarstepan & dlowan & ehBeth & farmerman -- Happy, happy new year.
ehBeth, thanks for the daffodil and iris bouquet, but I'm not so sure about the tooth-of-lion -- okay, dandelion -- part of the bouquet. Well, dandelions have their own form of beauty, both in yellow flower and in seed-borne globular shape.

New Year's Eve I plucked a greeting out of Google to send to a Latin-loving friend, and I thought of George as I sent it: "Felix sit annus novus!"

Today my family had black-eyed peas, a U.S. Southern custom, which might have migrated from New Orleans or Louisiana. Supposed to bring luck in the new year, specifically prosperity. The traditional dish is Hoppin' John. Since I had only a half-spoonful, my prosperity will consist only of finding a dime on the ground along a walking path.

To all, I will pass along a greeting sent to me years ago, which at the time I thought was soooo sexy. It was something like: May you have incredible joy frequently in the coming New Year!

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@Merry Andrew,

edgarblythe wrote:

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?

Merry Andrew wrote:

No. You're quite correct.
(Along with the rest of us old fogeys who insist that things like decades, centuries,
and millenia begin with the year one, not the year zero.)

In 525 A.D., at the behest of the Pope, a monk named Dionysius Exiguus
retrofitted the calendar starting the count from the (estimated) moment of Jesus' birth.
He inadvertently omitted the year 0, which is mathematically necessary to begin a count of time.

At the moment of a man 's birth, he is 0 years old; he is not then 52 weeks old while the umbilical cord is cut.

Accordingly, the applicable history of the count was inconsistent with the mathematical necessity
of counting time from 0 (the same way that [in America] we count that this year is 0 days,
0 weeks, etc. old + a few hours).

David

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Another thing. All this teapot-sized tempest about when the decade ends is reminiscent of the threads around 1999, when we created quodlibets about the precise date of the new millennium. As for me, I embrace both the common understanding (new decade begins 01.01.10) and the technicality (begins 01.01.11).

Social customs are often at 6s and 7s with convenience. Calendars, for example: it is inconvenient that they put Sunday at the beginning and end with Saturday, which does violence to the unity of the weekend. Go figure.

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@Aa,

The only problem i've got with this decade, or group of years Smile

is that there was the eighties, the nineties, the noughties... what're we in now? Tennies just sound right... Shocked

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@AbbieMcKenley,

AbbieMcKenley wrote:

The only problem i've got with this decade, or group of years is that
there was the eighties, the nineties, the noughties...
what're we in now? Tennies just sound right...

SO STIPULATED, Abbie!

David

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@Aa,

Aa wrote:

. . . it is inconvenient that they put Sunday at the beginning
and end with Saturday, which does violence to the unity of the weekend. Go figure.

I have always run my life based on the knowledge
that Monday is the first day of the week; I don 't care WHAT the calendars say about it.

David

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for how to say 2010
http://www.twentynot2000.com/

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@Aa,

Holy Cow, it's Aa!

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@littlek,

Yes, and she seems to be from California. Where did I ever get the idea she was in Hawaii?

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Yes, littlek, the Divine Bovine.
roger, I've been a Californian since wee toddlerhood,
but I have a Hawaii connection: my handle is from a
Hawaiian word: a'a
It has a lot of definitions, but the commonest one is a
type of lava flow that hurts when you walk on it barefoot.

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@AbbieMcKenley,

AbbieMcKenley wrote:

The only problem i've got with this decade, or group of years is that there was the eighties, the nineties, the noughties... what're we in now? Tennies just sound right...

the first 3 years will be the tweens (2010-12) the rest will be the teens (2013-19)

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Seed, thanks for pointing out that "pronunciamento" Website.
Yes, littlek, the Divine Bovine.
roger, I've been a Californian since wee toddlerhood,
but I have a Hawaii connection: my handle is from a
Hawaiian word: a'a
It has a lot of definitions, but the commonest one refers to a
type of lava flow that hurts when you walk on it barefoot.

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