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How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium?
#19351799 - 12/31/13 04:31 PM (10 years, 30 days ago) |
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Tomorrow is going to be 2014. How do you say it? Two thousand fourteen, or twenty fourteen?
I got news for you. If you say two thousand fourteen, you're doin' it wrong. Everyone here was born in the 1900s or earlier (they better be, at least). They all said nineteen-something when talking about a year. Can you imagine telling people you were born in one thousand nine hundred eighty five? Or one thousand nine hundred ninety four? No, because that sounds stupid as shit, right? So stop doing it now that it's the 2000 millennium. It kinda worked when it was 2001-2009, but now that it's not, cut that shit out and stop saying dates like an asshole.
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Re: How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium? [Re: Gumby] 2
#19351806 - 12/31/13 04:34 PM (10 years, 30 days ago) |
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"nineteen thousand eighty five? Or nineteen thousand ninety seven? No, because that sounds stupid as shit, right?"
Also wrong as shit. It's be one thousand nine hundred eighty-five.
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Re: How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium? [Re: Gumby]
#19351807 - 12/31/13 04:34 PM (10 years, 30 days ago) |
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I don't like using the "twenty" prefix on the years of 2000-2009. Saying Yeah so back in "Twenty-oh-three" sounds too weird. I just say "two-thousand-three"
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Re: How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium? [Re: Gumby]
#19351809 - 12/31/13 04:34 PM (10 years, 30 days ago) |
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Yeah, I'm sure people in the 1910's didn't call it 19 thousands tens Good point
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Re: How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium? [Re: Gumby]
#19351812 - 12/31/13 04:35 PM (10 years, 30 days ago) |
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Twenty hundred and fourteen A.D.
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Re: How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium? [Re: schwarg]
#19351814 - 12/31/13 04:36 PM (10 years, 30 days ago) |
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I'm doing it wrong I guess
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Re: How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium? [Re: Seriously_trippin]
#19351815 - 12/31/13 04:36 PM (10 years, 30 days ago) |
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Just now. Or this year, or fourteen if you must..
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Re: How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium? [Re: Me_Roy]
#19351816 - 12/31/13 04:36 PM (10 years, 30 days ago) |
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Me_Roy said: "nineteen thousand eighty five? Or nineteen thousand ninety seven? No, because that sounds stupid as shit, right?"
Also wrong as shit. It's be one thousand nine hundred eighty-five.
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Re: How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium? [Re: fiddle]
#19351824 - 12/31/13 04:38 PM (10 years, 30 days ago) |
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Two thousand " " There is no "and"
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Re: How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium? [Re: theRAPeutic]
#19351850 - 12/31/13 04:47 PM (10 years, 30 days ago) |
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wtf
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Re: How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium? [Re: theRAPeutic]
#19351853 - 12/31/13 04:48 PM (10 years, 30 days ago) |
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Twenty-something. 2000-2009 were only called "two thousand etc." because it seemed the simplest way to deal with the fact that "twenty one" generally is taken to mean 21, etc. But now that the tens place is higher than zero, we can relax and say "twenty fourteen", etc. because it can't be misconstrued.
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Re: How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium? [Re: Gumby]
#19351887 - 12/31/13 04:56 PM (10 years, 30 days ago) |
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Twenty something, it seems to roll off the tongue in a more precise manner than two thousand and blahdy blah for post 2009. Twenty oh nine...
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Re: How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium? [Re: seadragon]
#19351891 - 12/31/13 04:56 PM (10 years, 30 days ago) |
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tahp93 said: Two thousand " " There is no "and"
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seadragon said: wtf
This is true,
You don't say it's "two thousand AND thirteen" that's retarded as fuck, think about it.
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Re: How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium? [Re: 4HO-DMT]
#19351893 - 12/31/13 04:57 PM (10 years, 30 days ago) |
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i say 2k14
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Re: How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium? [Re: Sheekle]
#19351898 - 12/31/13 04:58 PM (10 years, 30 days ago) |
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Do you mean you actually say it like that out loud, like, "two kay fourteen"? lol
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Re: How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium? [Re: Into The Woods]
#19351901 - 12/31/13 04:59 PM (10 years, 30 days ago) |
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yep
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Re: How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium? [Re: Sheekle]
#19351904 - 12/31/13 05:00 PM (10 years, 30 days ago) |
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this is all the earths axis faulth
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Re: How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium? [Re: seadragon]
#19351918 - 12/31/13 05:03 PM (10 years, 30 days ago) |
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"Reverted forthy-pluss-one-thousand 0' and two."just like that.
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Re: How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium? [Re: Gumby]
#19351926 - 12/31/13 05:05 PM (10 years, 30 days ago) |
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Gumby said: Tomorrow is going to be 2014. How do you say it? Two thousand fourteen, or twenty fourteen?
I got news for you. If you say two thousand fourteen, you're doin' it wrong. Everyone here was born in the 1900s or earlier (they better be, at least). They all said nineteen-something when talking about a year. Can you imagine telling people you were born in one thousand nine hundred eighty five? Or one thousand nine hundred ninety four? No, because that sounds stupid as shit, right? So stop doing it now that it's the 2000 millennium. It kinda worked when it was 2001-2009, but now that it's not, cut that shit out and stop saying dates like an asshole.
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Says the guy who (before I logged in ) apparently came from a world with 31 months
Happy twenty fourteen all.
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Re: How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium? [Re: Icyus]
#19351930 - 12/31/13 05:06 PM (10 years, 30 days ago) |
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From 2000 to 2009, I used to write the date: xx/xx/0 or xx/xx/8 whenever I had to write it, like on a check.
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Re: How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium? [Re: deucedbi9]
#19351932 - 12/31/13 05:07 PM (10 years, 30 days ago) |
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LOL
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Re: How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium? [Re: Gumby]
#19351976 - 12/31/13 05:20 PM (10 years, 30 days ago) |
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>two thousand - something
People actually say it like that? Oh Jesus that sounds horrible, please stop.
I'll say twenty fourteen, just like I said twenty thirteen. Just like I said nineteen sixty.
Shame on anyone who uses that dreadful "two thousand whatever" business.
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Re: How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium? [Re: deucedbi9]
#19351988 - 12/31/13 05:24 PM (10 years, 30 days ago) |
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deucedbi9 said:
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Gumby said: Tomorrow is going to be 2014. How do you say it? Two thousand fourteen, or twenty fourteen?
I got news for you. If you say two thousand fourteen, you're doin' it wrong. Everyone here was born in the 1900s or earlier (they better be, at least). They all said nineteen-something when talking about a year. Can you imagine telling people you were born in one thousand nine hundred eighty five? Or one thousand nine hundred ninety four? No, because that sounds stupid as shit, right? So stop doing it now that it's the 2000 millennium. It kinda worked when it was 2001-2009, but now that it's not, cut that shit out and stop saying dates like an asshole.
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Happy twenty fourteen all.
Wut? 31 months? I am confuse.
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Re: How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium? [Re: Dawks]
#19351994 - 12/31/13 05:25 PM (10 years, 30 days ago) |
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Right back atcha.. 20/14 sounds retarded, two-thousand fourteen is better.
We aren't talking about your vision now..
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Re: How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium? [Re: Dawks]
#19352005 - 12/31/13 05:29 PM (10 years, 30 days ago) |
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Dawks said: >two thousand - something
People actually say it like that? Oh Jesus that sounds horrible, please stop.
I'll say twenty fourteen, just like I said twenty thirteen. Just like I said nineteen sixty.
Shame on anyone who uses that dreadful "two thousand whatever" business. 
Lol. I always thought "two thousand - something" was the correct way to say it, but when you put it like that, it's like I was wrong all along.
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Re: How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium? [Re: Into The Woods]
#19352022 - 12/31/13 05:33 PM (10 years, 30 days ago) |
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two comma zero one and four
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Re: How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium? [Re: Gumby]
#19352040 - 12/31/13 05:38 PM (10 years, 30 days ago) |
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There is only one right way to say it, and the right way is: twenty fourteen.
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Re: How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium? [Re: nooneman]
#19352065 - 12/31/13 05:45 PM (10 years, 30 days ago) |
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I say two muthufuckin thousand mothufuckin fourteen. Cause I'm cool enough to pull it off. Samuel L Jackson cool.
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Re: How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium? [Re: theRAPeutic]
#19352082 - 12/31/13 05:50 PM (10 years, 30 days ago) |
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tahp93 said: Right back atcha.. 20/14 sounds retarded, two-thousand fourteen is better.
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Re: How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium? [Re: Cyclohexylamine]
#19352136 - 12/31/13 06:01 PM (10 years, 30 days ago) |
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I say it "Oh fourteen" This is the accurate way.
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Re: How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium? [Re: Cyclohexylamine]
#19352143 - 12/31/13 06:04 PM (10 years, 30 days ago) |
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tahp93 said: Right back atcha.. 20/14 sounds retarded
if you're retarded maybe
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, two-thousand fourteen is better.
if we're counting years one by one under our breath, sure.
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So wtf are we supposed to say it like?
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Re: How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium? [Re: Into The Woods]
#19352244 - 12/31/13 06:38 PM (10 years, 30 days ago) |
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twenty fourteen
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Quote:
BlindSophist said: twenty fourteen
This guy is doin it right.
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Re: How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium? [Re: Into The Woods]
#19353704 - 01/01/14 04:34 AM (10 years, 30 days ago) |
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The universe doesnt know time man.. say either before, or now or later... done.
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Re: How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium? [Re: Icyus]
#19353719 - 01/01/14 04:47 AM (10 years, 30 days ago) |
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I bet you have exactly zero organisational skills.
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Re: How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium? [Re: Into The Woods]
#19353736 - 01/01/14 05:03 AM (10 years, 30 days ago) |
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Meh fuck I voted two thousand something but that's really for only the first decade. The past few years have all been 20-x.
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Re: How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium? [Re: jewunit]
#19353744 - 01/01/14 05:07 AM (10 years, 30 days ago) |
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I do.. but I dont like being logical and all..
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Re: How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium? [Re: Gumby]
#19353755 - 01/01/14 05:14 AM (10 years, 30 days ago) |
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Gumby said: Can you imagine telling people you were born in one thousand nine hundred eighty five? Or one thousand nine hundred ninety four?
Yes. If I were to say those years in French, of course. Around here, "two thousand fourteen" is the most common way to say it, but I sometimes hear "twenty fourteen". The former is way more common though. It's also consistent with the way years in previous centuries are referred to, which would be "nineteen hundred thirty" and "seventeen hundred eighty nine" and so forth. Come to think of it, saying "twenty ..." isn't consistent with "nineteen fifty four" at all, since the "nineteen" doesn't refer to the numbers 19, but is the abbreviation of nineteen hundred. You don't say "twenty hundred fourteen" either, so "two thousand fourteen" makes more sense if you think about it
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Re: How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium? [Re: Gumby]
#19353756 - 01/01/14 05:15 AM (10 years, 30 days ago) |
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I've found myself wondering how people of the 20th century that lived through the change called the years though. I'm sure it's known, but it's now known to me.
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Re: How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium? [Re: jewunit]
#19353797 - 01/01/14 05:58 AM (10 years, 30 days ago) |
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Eighteen fourteen, nineteen fourteen, twenty fourteen. It's a pretty obvious pattern. The first two numbers are said together.
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Re: How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium? [Re: Quawonk]
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Re: How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium? [Re: koraks]
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koraks said: Come to think of it, saying "twenty ..." isn't consistent with "nineteen fifty four" at all, since the "nineteen" doesn't refer to the numbers 19, but is the abbreviation of nineteen hundred. You don't say "twenty hundred fourteen" either, so "two thousand fourteen" makes more sense if you think about it 
That's about what I figure. "Two thousand fourteen" is only one syllable more than "Twenty-fourteen" anyway. Just think of all that time I'm wasting saying it the longer way, it boggles the mind.
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Re: How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium? [Re: psi]
#19354040 - 01/01/14 09:14 AM (10 years, 30 days ago) |
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We are starting a new millenia, and people are close to frantic as to how one should pronounce the year...
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Re: How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium? [Re: Icyus]
#19354119 - 01/01/14 09:48 AM (10 years, 30 days ago) |
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Icyus said: We are starting a new millenia, and people are close to frantic as to how one should pronounce the year...
News flash: we were starting a new millennium 14 years ago. You're a bit late to the party. Also: millennium. Millennia is the plural if you're against the whole 'millenniums' thing.
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Re: How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium? [Re: koraks]
#19354867 - 01/01/14 02:06 PM (10 years, 29 days ago) |
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Tell that to your brain... Am I late? You a rabbit or something? Ticktacking everything? Time is your prison.. bars made of soup.. you demean yet you do not see its consequences.. you hurt... dreaded..
basicly... this decides the fate of how many lives?
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Re: How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium? [Re: Icyus]
#19354895 - 01/01/14 02:15 PM (10 years, 29 days ago) |
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do my own thing and say "Oh 14"
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Re: How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium? [Re: CHeifM4sterDiezL]
#19354925 - 01/01/14 02:24 PM (10 years, 29 days ago) |
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CHeifM4sterDiezL said: do my own thing and say "Oh 14"

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Re: How do you refer to years in the 2000 millennium? [Re: volcomstoner]
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