2010 - twenty ten or two thousand and ten

baalthor

Someone on IMDB claimed that it's only because of Stanley Kubrick that "two thousand and" became popular. Would be a bit sceptical of that but I think from next year most people will use twenty ten and so on.

o1s1n

As already mentioned, we only called it 'two thousand and' because it wasn't possible to do it the other way. twenty nine? Doesn't make sense.

Now that the sillyness is over, we can get back to doing it the proper way.

TWENTY TEN.

dlofnep

2 thousand and 10. If anyone says twenty-ten in front of me, they are getting a swift kick in the face.

o1s1n

dlofnep wrote: »

2 thousand and 10. If anyone says twenty-ten in front of me, they are getting a swift kick in the face.

Lucky for you, you probably won't be alive when people doing it your (wrong) way have to say 'two thousand, one hundred and twenty one'. And so on. The sane people will be saying twenty one twenty one.

dlofnep

o1s1n wrote: »

Lucky for you, you probably won't be alive when people doing it your (wrong) way have to say 'two thousand, one hundred and twenty one'. And so on. The sane people will be saying twenty one twenty one.

Nobody will say twenty-ten. Nobody. Not on dlofnep's watch.

DarkJager

"Meal for one"

o1s1n

dlofnep wrote: »

Nobody will say twenty-ten. Nobody. Not on dlofnep's watch.

You're just afraid to embrace the future. Come on man! Twenty Ten brings promise of hover cars and moon pie! :pac:

dlofnep

o1s1n wrote: »

You're just afraid to embrace the future. Come on man! Twenty Ten brings promise of hover cars and moon pie! :pac:

Nobody! :mad:

dlofnep has spoken.

Novella

I say 'two thousand and ten', but now I feel wrong!

We need a pole, to hang the numbers on or a poll to see which way is the most popular.

could a mod add one.

ejmaztec

MMX


m'kay?

CrazyRabbit

I just call it year 33.

My calendar starts the day I was born.

poisonated

I think twenty ten sounds better tbh

Sea Sharp

2k10
Twenty Ten for the win.

We don't want kids these days growing up thinking it was the "One Thousand Nine Hundred and Sixteen Rising.

Lets get back to the proper system and say 2010.

Leprachaun

Two thousand and ten.

alexcorb1991

Its 2010 don't see how people think otherwise. We didn't go around 1 thousand 9 hundred and ninty nine, we said 19, 99

ejmaztec

It would be a lot more civilised were we to say "In the year of Our Lord, two thousand and ten". It would certainly piss off the politically correct "happy holidays" folk.

Leprachaun

alexcorb1991 wrote: »

Its 2010 don't see how people think otherwise. We didn't go around 1 thousand 9 hundred and ninty nine, we said 19, 99

Yeh but I've never heard anyone in ireland say twenty ten. It sounds really american. Two thousand and ten all the way.

karlog

Leprachaun wrote: »

Yeh but I've never heard anyone in ireland say twenty ten. It sounds really american. Two thousand and ten all the way.

Dude, nothing wrong with sounding American

baalthor

alexcorb1991 wrote: »

Its 2010 don't see how people think otherwise.

You have to type it in words - it's the same in numeral format either way:D

efb

Twenty ten

Overheal

"One ticket for Twenty Twelve please"

"That'll be Nine Hundred Fifty Cents, please"

bp1989

twenty ten, it sounds more futuristic:pac:

efb

dlofnep wrote: »

Nobody will say twenty-ten. Nobody. Not on dlofnep's watch.

Sure. twenty ten

samhail

ive been calling it two o ten... though i was calling two 0 8 and two o nine which was wrong

CUCINA

I actually started a thread on this same subject last April, and "twenty ten" seemed to be the winner...it would be my preference as well.

I don't get the "nah! too American" thing...so what even if it was an American way of saying it?

Aard

I'd like to say twenty-ten, but every time I go to, I just end up sheepishly saying two-thousand-and-ten.

plein de force

twenty ten

neilthefunkeone

Next year....

magma69

I'm calling it "the square root of 4,040,100". It rolls off the tongue nicely.