Re: happy new years

Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...> wrote:
>
> Here's a new wor dto dscribe the new century (It is a new cntury, despite,
> the lack of a year zero).
    All my life, and presumably yours, we've heard times being refered to as
being in the Nth Century, for some positive integer N, such as "19th Century
writer" or "17th Century painting".  It's always meant "the 100 years ending
with the year 100 times N".  Why change it now?  Somehow, to me at least,
"the turn of the century which is the last year of the 20th Century and the
first 99 years of the 21st Century" doesn't have quite the same impact that
"the turn of the 21st Century" does.

ObConlang: In Gladilatian "Happy New Year" is "Lrwravne soya mnefmu fetnapu
nsawau."  Or, more informally "Nsawa lrwravne soya."

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             Dennis Paul Himes    <>    dennis@himes.connix.com
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Disclaimer: "True, I talk of dreams; which are the children of an idle
brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy; which is as thin of substance as
the air."                      - Romeo & Juliet, Act I Scene iv Verse 96-99