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

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 ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨day⁩ ago
  …no no no no…you’re making it even MORE complicated!!!
  
  screams wildly into pillows
  
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  - burkybang@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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FreshLight@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
You are allowed to write “eleven”

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ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨day⁩ ago
  " Disney’s 100.1 Dalmatians "
  
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  - ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    It’s an unrated cut.
    
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- eronth@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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