Am I the only one who has a problem with "twenty-ten?" After all, did we call

[Redstone]

this last piece of shit of a year "twenty-oh-nine?

Redstone

[kayakjohnny]

1. I'm fine with O-ten, myself.

[phasma ex machina]

8. Plain old "Ten" works for me.

[Gormy Cuss]

2. For me, it won't take long for it to sound normal.

I miss saying "nineteen"-something.

[bigwillq]

3. No problem with it

However, I will be calling it Two thousand and ten Have a good New Year! :hi:

[Iggo]

4. No, but we should've. (n/t)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. My dear Redstone...

I have no problem with "twenty-ten." I rather like how it rolls off my tongue...

I called the current year "two thousand nine."

:shrug:

[rebel with a cause]

10. Somehow I lost one of the zeros of this year.

I called it 2-0-9. I kept doing this all year although I knew it was two thousand and nine. :shrug:

[elocs]

6. Well, 1910 was generally called nineteen-ten and since 19 is followed by 20

then 20-10 sounds ok too.

I did refer to this last year as 2 thousand and 9.

[JTG of the PRB]

7. I'm going to call it oh-ten, and perhaps even twenty-oh-ten.

Because I think it's neat that way. :P

[iris27]

23. 20010?

:)

[Inchworm]

9. I've thought about this forty-eleven times

And twenty-ten sounds perfect to me :)

:toast:

[mokawanis]

11. I'm gong to say 201-0

try to start something new.

[kentauros]

12. Yes, you are the only one.

Because it's properly pronounced "2010" :P

[Chan790]

13. Nope.

It's "Two Thousand Ten".

[merh]

14. However you choose to say it,

Happy New Year to you, dear friend. :pals:



:loveya:

[Redstone]

20. Merh, m'dear, hope all is going well with you and that you're still

enjoying that great new house.

Redstone

[Suich]

15. It takes longer to say "two-thousand ten"

than it does to say "twenty-ten!"

Happy New Year to you and Mrs. Redstone!

:party: :hi:

[Lex]

16. I hope people call it what they damn well please. nt

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

17. Did you party like it was one thousand nine hundred and ninety nine?

[Lionel Mandrake]

18. The consensus here seems to favor "twenty ten".

You might as well get used to it. :shrug:

[Lorax]

19. One thousand nine hundred

We didn't say one thousand nine hundred ninety nine. We said nineteen ninety nine. Why wouldn't we say twenty ten. The only reason we said two thousand nine is because it would have been confusing to say two thousand oh nine, or two thousand and two, or twenty oh two.

[MiddleFingerMom]

21. twenty-ten?

I used to have 20/10 vision in my right eye.
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Now, I wish I had 20/10 hindsight.
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I'd make a killing in the market.
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And I think we made a GRAVE mistake not calling the last
decade "The Naughties". Seemed a no-brainer to me.

[iris27]

24. eh, I had fun calling it the "pre-teens" n/t

[MiddleFingerMom]

25. No way I could call it that!!!

I'd probably be in a bad mood one day and someone would hear me say
something like, "I'm not about to call it fucking 'pre-teens'"...
and I'd end up having to register as a sex offender.
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I wouldn't be very popular in prison, neither.
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Or TOO popular....... I forget which.

[iris27]

22. Did you have a problem with "nineteen ninety-nine"? n/t

[dysfunctional press]

29. i had PLENTY of problems with nineteen-ninety-nine...

but none of them had to do with pronunciation.

[jobycom]

26. I think we should use Roman numerals. MMX has a great sound to it.

That may not have been true in previous centuries. MCMXCIX would have given even Prince trouble.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

36. That's the best! Short and sweet and Bush free.

[Deep13]

27. Yes and yes. nt

[dysfunctional press]

28. we used 'nineteen-so-and-so' all through the previous century...

why wouldn't we use 'twenty-something' for this one?

[dana_b]

30. good point

saying "I did such and such in one thousand nine hundred and eighty five" sounds weird.

[hunter]

31. If ten-twenty is CB radio talk for "Where are you...?"

... does twenty-ten mean "Where am I?"

:silly:

[unpossibles]

32. yes. Although I have to confess that I am

twenty-nineteen years old too.

[stray cat]

33. What is it you want to call it?

[cherish44]

34. I think since we're out of the '00s, twenty sounds better than two thousand

20 didn't work with the aughts, but now it just makes more sense :)

[MiddleFingerMom]

35. Every once in a while, I get all hiphopster doofus......

I'll be referrin' to it as T... T... (with a Snoop Dogg delivery)
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You know what I'm sayin'?
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OK, OK... if I hadn't previewed that, I would have sent it forth
as "Snoop Doog" (as in Doogie Howser, I guess).
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S'up, Doog?
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Cool as I am.