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Title: 2010
Post by: Kuromatsu on January 01, 2010, 02:54:14 PM
See Question.
Title: Re: 2010
Post by: Luigison on January 01, 2010, 03:32:31 PM
http://twentynot2000.com/
Title: Re: 2010
Post by: Turtlekid1 on January 01, 2010, 03:35:12 PM
I use both interchangeably, but I seem to use "Twenty-Ten" more.
Title: Re: 2010
Post by: Weegee on January 01, 2010, 04:52:27 PM
Sadly, I've accustomed myself to the five-syllable pronunciation.
Title: Re: 2010
Post by: ShadowBrain on January 01, 2010, 08:13:52 PM
I'm kind of with Tk at this point. Honestly, you'll have to get back to me in 2011--I don't think I ever have much cause to mention a year in conversation unless it's in the present or past.
Title: Re: 2010
Post by: Deezer on January 01, 2010, 09:00:25 PM
" 'Twenty-ten' is gonna take over. It's shortest. It's easiest to understand." (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/01/MN621BB41U.DTL)
Title: Re: 2010
Post by: TEM on January 01, 2010, 09:57:44 PM
I say two thousand ten because I'm not a ******bag who likes to be contrary for the hell of it.
Title: Re: 2010
Post by: Chupperson Weird on January 01, 2010, 10:55:39 PM
I used two thousand x throughout the last decade. Now twenty x has taken over because that's how people were referring to dates occurring now and in the future before we got to them.
Title: Re: 2010
Post by: CrossEyed7 on January 01, 2010, 11:58:02 PM
I'm going to make fun of all the people that wait until 2020 to switch because it sounds cool instead of doing it now. I also kinda want to live to see 2110 to see if there's still people saying "two thousand one hundred and ten". Thirdly, I'm pretty sure my kids will call last year "twenty oh nine" and we'll sound like old people saying "nineteen hundred and aught five" instead of "ninteen oh five" to them, though my mom is convinced they'll come up with something completely different. Fourthly, Bill O'Reilly calls it "two-ten", incidentally. Fifthly, does anyone else find themselves saying "oh-ten" for the abbreviated form, as in Class of '10, like '09, etc.? I'm doing it semi-intentionally at this point, since I feel like it's going to be a while before the last two digits on their own sound like years again rather than just numbers, and we've become accustomed to years starting with oh. And there still is an 0 before it, anyway.
Title: Re: 2010
Post by: Mr. Wiggles on January 02, 2010, 12:02:33 AM
I say two thousand ten because I'm not a ******bag who likes to be contrary for the hell of it.
Title: Re: 2010
Post by: Weegee on January 02, 2010, 12:59:32 AM
From now on, I shall refer to all years in their proper numerical tense.

"One thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine was a great year in music."

WHO'S WITH ME
Title: Re: 2010
Post by: Lizard Dude on January 02, 2010, 01:36:57 AM
How come the people pronouncing it in the format all other years in human history are pronounced are "contrary ******bags".
Title: Re: 2010
Post by: N64 Chick on January 02, 2010, 11:57:52 AM
I haven't decided yet, though I might go with twenty-ten. Maybe.
Title: Re: 2010
Post by: Koopaslaya on January 02, 2010, 12:38:18 PM
Two thousand ten, without hesitation. 
Title: Re: 2010
Post by: Chupperson Weird on January 02, 2010, 01:02:07 PM
I'd just like to say that I think it's weird that people are treating this like a new conundrum now all of a sudden. People have been talking about these years for a long time.
Title: Re: 2010
Post by: ShadowBrain on January 02, 2010, 04:33:03 PM
I guess there was a time when, after 2001: A Space Odessy came out, people were wondering whether, when that year finally comes, if we should pronounce it "twenty oh-one", "two-thousand-one", "two-thousand-and-one", or something else.
Title: Re: 2010
Post by: ToadBowser on January 02, 2010, 05:35:23 PM
I like to say "two-zero-one-zero". ...Oh, wait, that means I'm being contrary for the hell of it... Ok, I say it "two-thousand-ten". No "and". Always have, always will.
Title: Re: 2010
Post by: ShadowBrain on January 02, 2010, 05:55:44 PM
Yeah... that's starting to sound right.
Title: Re: 2010
Post by: SolidShroom on January 02, 2010, 09:01:08 PM
I just say "this year."
Title: Re: 2010
Post by: Glorb on January 02, 2010, 09:11:30 PM
I pronounce it 2010.
Title: Re: 2010
Post by: nensondubois on January 03, 2010, 10:38:44 AM
11111011010 but most people don't get it so I mainly stick with twenty-ten.