SPACEWOMAN ORDERED ME TO ASK THIS: What are we going to call 2010? Is it going to be twenty-ten or two-thousand-ten (Arthur C. Clarke-style)? Zolo? We only have a few days to reach consensus.
No one said Nineteen Hundred anything unless they were putting on airs. We got two-thousand-somethings because modern folks were uncomfortable saying Twenty-Aught-Four. It's Twenty-whatever from here on out.
Deux mille dix? Failing a mass conversion to Francophilism, I think we'll be hearing Twenty Ten most frequently. Whatever, as long as I get it right on the two checks I still have to write out every month.
I've been saying "oh-nine" (and "oh-etc.") for the past nine years, so I'm thinking of continuing the trend with "oh-ten." Will get a little unwieldy with eleven, thirteen and beyond, but I'm willing to commit.
But that doesn't make much sense... the "oh" in your "oh-nine" no longer exists in 2010. If you were saying "oh-oh-nine" it would make sense to switch to "oh-ten", but not the way you stated it.
No one said Nineteen Hundred anything unless they were putting on airs. We got two-thousand-somethings because modern folks were uncomfortable saying Twenty-Aught-Four. It's Twenty-whatever from here on out.
ReplyDeleteDeux mille dix? Failing a mass conversion to Francophilism, I think we'll be hearing Twenty Ten most frequently. Whatever, as long as I get it right on the two checks I still have to write out every month.
ReplyDeleteI'm graduating high school next year (!) and my grade calls ourselves the class of Twenty-Ten, although we shout One-Oh at pep rallies.
ReplyDeleteI'm just going to say 10. Or maybe X.
ReplyDeleteTwo thousan'n'ten [sic] seems to be the consensus from what I've been hearing here in Chicago.
ReplyDeleteMMX sounds kinda badass.
ReplyDeleteI feel like we're definitely going with twenty-X, but Google tells me that it's still open to debate. Who decides these things?
ReplyDeleteMy feeling is it's "two thousand xx" until 2020 (which is obviously twenty twenty). Then it's off to the races from there.
ReplyDeleteI think I will call it George. I will love it, and pet it......
ReplyDeleteI've been saying "oh-nine" (and "oh-etc.") for the past nine years, so I'm thinking of continuing the trend with "oh-ten." Will get a little unwieldy with eleven, thirteen and beyond, but I'm willing to commit.
ReplyDeleteHeh. I was going to suggest Ralph.
ReplyDeleteBut that doesn't make much sense... the "oh" in your "oh-nine" no longer exists in 2010. If you were saying "oh-oh-nine" it would make sense to switch to "oh-ten", but not the way you stated it.
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