Are we in two thousand ten or twenty ten ?

[Richard87]

Are we in "two thousand ten" or "twenty ten"?

What year are we in?

 

[electrical_ck]

i say twenty ten

 

[Danger]

It's a matter of individual choice. I go with 'Twenty-Ten' because I'm lazy and it's easier to say.

 

[inflector]

Twenty-Ten saves a syllable.

 

[Pinu7]

Who actually keeps track of what year it?

 

[ideasrule]

Two-oh-one-oh.

 

[jtbell]

I call 1810 "eighteen ten" and 1910 "nineteen ten" so I call 2010 "twenty ten".

On the other hand, I call 1909 "nineteen oh nine" but I didn't call last year "twenty oh nine." But that year is over with, thank God.

 

[Alienjoey]

Last year was "oh nine", so I'm just going to call it "oh ten". I'm lucky that it will actually be true in this particular century.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

I don't get it. It's two thousand nine plain and simple. Oh wait. Never mind.

 

[GeorginaS]

I realize that we've historically called it nineteen-fifty-two but we also called it nineteen-oh-eight. This century, we called it two thousand eight. (I know there's supposed to be an "and" in there, but when I said it out loud, here, to me, I said it with a bare hint of an "n" to represent the "and".) I intend to call it two-thousand-ten because that goes with how I've been addressing this century for the first nine/ten years.

 

[lisab]

I bet it won't matter, because 10 years from now *everyone* will say "twenty-twenty". From there on, it will be "twenty-" whatever.

I guess I'll be an early adapter and use "twenty-ten."

 

[rootX]

Two thousand ten.
Two thousand twenty

I will not be here for
Two thousand one hundred eleven

 

[mynameinc]

5770. :)

I use both.

 

[rewebster]

Last year was "oh nine", so I'm just going to call it "oh ten". I'm lucky that it will actually be true in this particular century.

so, two oh ten?


I think when some people will speak in a 'dramatic' sense, they may say two thousand and ten, or two thousand ten---I'll call it 20 10, 10 4

 

[rolerbe]

Uhh, "yes". Just not "Two thousand and ten" For the love of god Montressor!

 

[Chi Meson]

Let me be the first to call it "2kX"

and the last.

EDIT: no, just googled it. Of course someone else used it already.
*takes down his homemade banner*
I'll go now.

 

[cristo]

It's two thousand and ten... bloody yanks!

 

[jtbell]

I changed my mind... I'm going to call this year "Michelson-Morley Experiment." (MMX)

 

[Borek]

10 years from now *everyone* will say "twenty-twenty"

Unless some smarta** will call it twenty squared.

 

[rewebster]

Let me be the first to call it "2kX"




and the last.

EDIT: no, just googled it. Of course someone else used it already.
*takes down his homemade banner*
I'll go now.

tukax

 

[okkvlt]

i say we are in MMX.
edit: damn i was beaten to it.

 

[brewnog]

It's two thousand and ten... bloody yanks!

I can't believe it took a whole page of cobblers before this sense came out. Good man. Two thousand and ten it is.

 

[hypatia]

Twenty Ten it is!

 

[diazona]

I can't believe it took a whole page of cobblers before this sense came out. Good man. Two thousand and ten it is.

I'm with you there, although I sustain no illusions about actually being able to change anyone's mind.

Among certain people I know there was a movement for '0A ('08, '09, '0A... yes we are nerds)

 

[diazona]

And I almost forgot:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2012

 

[Chi Meson]

I can't believe it took a whole page of cobblers before this sense came out. Good man. Two thousand and ten it is.

MM and X

 

[rewebster]

eminem ex

 

[Topher925]

Its "one one one one one zero one one zero one zero".

 

[rolerbe]

Or 7DA (That's "seven dee ayhe")

 

[Redbelly98]

I changed my mind... I'm going to call this year "Michelson-Morley Experiment." (MMX)

Good one. I can't believe it's been 22 years since the Centenial Celebration, or M²C², at Case Western.

Its "one one one one one zero one one zero one zero".

It will be 100,000,000,000 before you know it.
Hope that doesn't create a worldwide software glitch