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11-18-2019, 03:26 PM | #16 |
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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" |
11-18-2019, 04:10 PM | #17 |
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Yeahbut,
In 1814 [eighteen fourteen] we took a little trip Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip … ETA: and we're gonna party like it's 1999... ……...and the 2001 attack on the WTC... Last edited by sexobon; 11-18-2019 at 04:26 PM. |
11-18-2019, 04:43 PM | #18 |
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11-18-2019, 04:50 PM | #19 | |
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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]??"
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11-18-2019, 05:10 PM | #20 | |
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2001-2009 are their own category because "twenty oh one" sounds dumb. But I maintain that years like "two thousand fifty-four" will stick around to some degree all the way to "two thousand ninety nine." |
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11-18-2019, 06:03 PM | #21 |
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All it takes is one really catchy song, that popularizes saying the year as twenty-something in the lyrics, to change the way everyone says it for at least a decade. We'll see what pop culture says.
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11-18-2019, 06:05 PM | #22 |
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11-18-2019, 06:12 PM | #23 |
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That's not very catchy.
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