Why not 20-10? People say 19-99, not year one thousand nine hundred ninety nine.
jupiterone
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Originally posted by Chris Crossland
I hope I'm still alive for the summer of 2069.
damn, me too
Sushipunk
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Originally posted by Seppuku
Why not 20-10? People say 19-99, not year one thousand nine hundred ninety nine.
Because people had been saying 'nineteen-blah-blah' for AGES :p
It just sounds kind of awkward. No one said twenty-oh-oh for the year 2000, and no one said twenty-oh-one for 2001 either. By 2003, we'd all started shortening 2001 to '01. This year it would sound weird to say "yeah, welcome to ten!" wouldn't it?
JD8180
I think I'd use both twenty-ten and two thousand and ten pretty interchangeably.
When will it start being acceptable to just say the last two digits again?
Ian
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Originally posted by Fledz
20-10, unless I'm in a formal setting. Then I will say two thousand and ten.
I'll also bet that this is true for most people.
correct sir. Sometimes it sounds wrong, like 20-11 would to be but 20-12 doesn't somehow. Maybe cos we've had all the olympic stuff thrown at us that we're used to hearing it.
stren
dwa tysiące dziesiąty
Moongoose
If im speaking english i will say 20-10, unless like Fledz said im stuck in a formal enviroment where it will be 2010. In slovenian i will always say the full number because anything else sounds just silly and doesnt really take less time to say it.
Acton
Two thousand and ten for me, but I can soon see it being the 'norm' calling in Twenty-Ten.
pkcRAISTLIN
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Originally posted by Sushipunk
Because people had been saying 'nineteen-blah-blah' for AGES :p
It just sounds kind of awkward. No one said twenty-oh-oh for the year 2000, and no one said twenty-oh-one for 2001 either. By 2003, we'd all started shortening 2001 to '01. This year it would sound weird to say "yeah, welcome to ten!" wouldn't it?
