Re: CHAT: Happy New Year! Parinaye!

fortytwo@GDN.NET writes:
>Melissa Phong wrote:
>> BTW, my own preference would be to revive aught. One of my pet peeves is
>> when people say "oh" instead of "zero."
>> But twenty-zero-one (2001) sounds a bit cumbersome.
>
>I have no problem with "oh" for zero.  But for 2001, I've always heard
>"two thousand one"
I always have too, but within the context of the discussion (how to refer
to the years 2000–2009 as a group) dividing it that way made more sense to
me.

Besides, how long will that last? I don't think we'll be living in the
year two thousand thirty five. And I sure don't see people living in two
thousand one hundred fifty two instead of twenty one fifty two or at least
the old-style twenty one hundred fifty two.

Imagine if we had called last year one thousand nine hundred ninety nine
instead of nineteen ninety nine.

Obligatory CR: has anyone felt the need to deal with this in their
language and how did they do it?

Liss