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Originally Posted by Clodfobble
I've thought more about it, and I'm going to go ahead and declare a particular linguistic nuance:
When it is an adjective, people are more likely to say "twenty." When it is a noun, they say "two thousand."
Consider:
"Back in two thousand fourteen"
"The twenty-fourteen Olympic games"
"When Donald Trump was elected in two thousand sixteen"
"The twenty-sixteen election"
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This is good.
I was gonna say, I always say "two thousand nineteen" in reference to what I can't believe is still happening.
"It's
two thousand nineteen--people are
still [whatever the thing is]??"