2010

[The Great Crep'er]

According to the forums, the new year starts in about an hour and a half! May the new year for you be filled with joy, prosperity, the love of family and friends, and the occasional good post!

[Samadhi]

ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS—EXCEPT EUROPA.

ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE.
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[Lepton*]

...a set of spacecraft to orbit Jupiter and eventually orbit and land on Europa

[Courk]

What are you calling it? Twenty-ten? Two thousand ten? Something else?

My leaning is currently two thousand ten.

Merry New Year!

[Samadhi]

More importantly, are we in a new decade or not?

And on another note, there's not much interesting about the number 2010. It's an order higher in roundness than usual (logn ^{log 2} ), 16 factors vice 4. The rest that's of note is equally bland. It's the 16th 21 gonal number which is cool but doesn't exactly make you go "neat!"
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[Scurra]

I'm in the Twenty-Ten group. At some point we are going to change to the Twenty- usage, and although I know that the American counting system doesn't include the word "and" thus making it less of an issue, I think that even just Two Thousand Eleven is going to sound silly.

I just read a fun article which argues that the 20th Century actually only had 99 years in it - that although people clearly considered that it started on 1 January 1901 (as can be seen from newspapers at that time), it also very clearly ended on 31 December 1999, no matter what the pedants said (and I'm one of them!)
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[The Great Crep'er]

I'm with courk, I mean, that's how you'd say the number if you were counting up to it. And it's not like there's a number after 2 that takes a bit more effort for it to roll of the tongue. I'd say more people would start saying twenty in the year 2100 and onward, and then there's the year 3000 but I'm betting by then people will have evolved far beyond the use for tongues or voiceboxes.

Of course I was planning on calling it something else like 'Arnold' but I doubt people will have any idea of what I'm talking about.
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[The Great Crep'er]

Is zero not a valid starting point? I mean when Christ was born at midnight on December 31st were we not then starting A.D.? Is there a need to spill over into the next marked century/decade/ etc.?

[The Ragin' South Asian]

Twenty Ten for me

[Zag]

[The Great Crep'er]

There's no correct way of saying it, it's a matter of opinion.
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[Sessie]

Happy New Year!

My $.02: Most people pronounced "2009" as "two thousand nine," and not "twenty oh nine." However, I hear "1909" pronounced "nineteen oh nine" rather than "one thousand nine hundred nine." So who knows? I guess it's just whatever sounds less awkward to you personally. I don't like "twenty ten" and I'm too lazy to keep saying "two thousand ten," so I think I'll continue the whole "oh seven," "oh eight," "oh nine" thing and go with "oh ten" just because I feel like being contrary.
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[Pablo]

I think we should start calling the years by the pronunciation of their Roman numeral representations. So this year would be "mmx" (pronounced like 'mimics')
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[Quailman]

[Chuck]

I plan to call it "this year" for awhile, then "last year", then "a couple of years ago", then "a few years ago", then "several years ago". That should last out my life expectancy.

[Courk]

[Death Mage]

Twenty-ten. We may not be technically in a new decade, but we ARE out of the... aughts, the o's, the zeros, the zeds, the naughts, the nulls, the mills, whatever they decide to call it.
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[Scurra]

[The Great Crep'er]

[wordcross]

I think you're missing the point after his post.
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[referee]

[The Great Crep'er]

It's not really, it just kind of makes things sort of lopsided and uneven. Y'know it's like how some people dress soppily but you can't really tell them what to do. I suppose this goes for all the years of the 20th century as well. Sort of hard to believe 1970 being in the sixties, 1980 being in the seventies, 1990 being in the eighties, etc, etc.

[Chuck]

The sixties were the years 1960 to 1969. The 197th decade was from 1961 to 1970. That's easier than accepting that the first decade had only nine years.

[The Great Crep'er]

Well, the 201st decade isn't so bad, although I doubt anyone not basing some good amount of attention to the number will be counting.

[MatthewV]

The best thing about 2010 is that when you start to write "09" in the date, you can stop at the zero and sneak a one in front!