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El Scorcho wrote:"Twenty-ten" or "two thousand and ten" will both work for me. If someone gives me any of that "Oh ten" crap, they might get a throat punch. That's dumb.
About as dumb as people arguing that 2009 isn't the end of a decade.
It isn't if you live by the Gregorian calendar, which I think it's a pretty safe thing to assume.
As I said in the other thread on here, that's pedantic. In modern times most (normal) people group decades from 0-9.
Besides, it was the end of A decade. A decade is just a ten year period and 2000-2009 qualifies as that. It may not be the end of a gregorian decade but so far as grouping events into decades goes, modern society hasn't been too keen on caring about those.
And modern society is what voted Obama into office. Just because modern society says this and that doesn't make it right or even mathematically correct.
flamesbball84 wrote:And modern society is what voted Obama into office. Just because modern society says this and that doesn't make it right or even mathematically correct.
Did you read the last part of my post? 2000-2009 is a decade. A ten year period. It's not the end of a gregorian decade, but that's not what people care about. People care about that particular method of decade grouping. There's no math to that. It's just a preference society seems to have. Since a decade is any ten year period, then there's nothing wrong with that.
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flamesbball84 wrote:And modern society is what voted Obama into office. Just because modern society says this and that doesn't make it right or even mathematically correct.
Did you read the last part of my post? 2000-2009 is a decade. A ten year period. It's not the end of a gregorian decade, but that's not what people care about. People care about that particular method of decade grouping. There's no math to that. It's just a preference society seems to have. Since a decade is any ten year period, then there's nothing wrong with that.
All I'm saying is that using that method is simply inconsistent because then the first "decade" of AD is only 1-9, which is just 9 years. And that is mathematically false no matter how you want to shape it up.
prototype wrote:I'll pronounce it - "The Year Obama destroyed our wonderful Country".
I agree.
Seriously though, twenty ten.
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