Comment on At what point do you stop calling the years "two thousand and X" and start calling them "twenty X"?

shartworx@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  My brain hurts. I’ve just spent like 3 minutes stating how the “and” isn’t something I ever heard before. Then I said how it goes all the way to 2019. Then I remembered I don’t remember anyone calling it Two Thousand Nineteen. It’s Twenty Nineteen. But 2011 is Two Thousand Elevin, but I HAVE heard Twenty Elevin. And same with 2010.

  So now it becomes a matter of geolocation region preferences. Different people switched over at different times. And I am NOT about to go spend my time researching thousands of different data points of who says what and when.

  screams into a pillow

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  • Hope@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    People may have also switched some years retroactively. I definitely said two thousand ten back then, but would say twenty ten now.

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      …no no no no…you’re making it even MORE complicated!!!

      screams wildly into pillows

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      • burkybang@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I say “twenty” for all of them now, like “twenty oh nine”. “twenty hundred” sounds weird now, but I guarantee eventually people will forget about ever calling them “two thousand and”.

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  • ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If you want to be a bit pedantic the and is incorrect for a year. When you say a number the and should be to denote a decimal portion of a number. It’s generally not always used that way so context is often required to determine the intent.

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    • I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      " Disney’s 100.1 Dalmatians "

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      • ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It’s an unrated cut.

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    • eronth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I know that’s what they try to teach you in math in school, but absolutely nobody does it that way in practice, making it just wrong to teach it.

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  • FreshLight@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You are allowed to write “eleven”

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