A website has surfaced that asks us the question biggest question of the new decade: Twenty-ten, or two-thousand ten? The website http://www.twentynot2000.com/ aims to correct our speech, and lead us in the right path. When the millennium started we began saying the year a different way. Compare nineteen-ninety-nine to two-thousand-one, big difference. But here we enter the next decade, and the website has this to say:
Say the year “1810” out loud. Now say the year “1999” out loud. See a pattern? It’s been easier, faster, and shorter to say years this way for every decade (except for the one that just ended) instead of saying the number the long way. However, many people are carrying the way they said years from last decade over to this decade as a bad habit. If we don’t fix this now, we’ll be stuck saying years the long way for the next 99 years. Don’t let that happen!
Honestly, I could care less about how it’s said, and I will be saying two-thousand ten because it just sounds a lot better to me, but how you say it is completely up to you.
What do you guys think? Do you think this site is necessary? Do we really all need to say it the same way? Let us know know in the comments.
Have a great new year everyone. And here’s to a brand new decade.
Via [Tech Crunch]
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