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How do you pronounce 2010?

Poll Results: How do you pronounce 2010?

 
  • 25% (22)
    Two thousand ten
  • 48% (42)
    Twenty-ten
  • 5% (5)
    However the fuck I want
  • 19% (17)
    People really give a shit about this?
86 Total Votes  
post #1 of 48
1/2/10 at 3:22pm
Thread Starter 
My friends and I were debating this issue the other night. CHUD-universe, what say the masses?
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post #2 of 48
1/2/10 at 3:25pm
Twenty-Ten.
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post #3 of 48
1/2/10 at 3:26pm
The year we make contact.

Twenty-ten works too.
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post #4 of 48
1/2/10 at 3:26pm
Twenty-ten. Saves time.
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post #5 of 48
1/2/10 at 3:27pm
Thread Starter 
I hate the whole brevity thing. People are lazy enough already. I'm a two thousand ten person, my self.
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post #6 of 48
1/2/10 at 3:30pm
Yeah, but everything gets shortened in the future. "Two thousand ten" is so twenty-zero-nine.
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post #7 of 48
1/2/10 at 3:31pm
http://www.twentynot2000.com/
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post #8 of 48
1/2/10 at 3:35pm
Two thousand ten sounds like the future!

Oh-Ten sounds more cyberpunk.
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post #9 of 48
1/2/10 at 3:48pm
I changed my mind, twenty-ten it is.
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post #10 of 48
1/2/10 at 3:57pm
I voted who gives a shit.

But apparently CNN cares enough to run this: http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/....say.2010.wcax
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post #11 of 48
1/2/10 at 4:05pm
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Originally Posted by James May View Post
That link almost convinced me. I was like, "Yeah, I do say "nineteen ninety-nine", but then the video Brendon posted confirmed my vote. I've said "two thousand" through "two thousand nine" for a decade now. Nobody says "twenty oh-nine". The pattern doesn't hold and I'm not about to change now, dammit!!! Except for maybe "twenty-twenty". That's just fun to say.
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post #12 of 48
1/2/10 at 4:07pm
Twanky-tank.
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post #13 of 48
1/2/10 at 4:11pm
I'm a two-thousand man myself. Yeah, yeah, I say "nineteen-ninety-nine" too, but for 2010 the two-thousand just seems more natural and less "hip".
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post #14 of 48
1/2/10 at 4:15pm
Oh God, I smell the next "Chud Great Debate", like Avatar and The Dark Night. Every thread will devolve into discussions about how 2010 is the best year ever, or how it sucks balls and we're all sick of hearing about it. Devin will pen ten articles detailing how "twenty-tennies" are ruining the calendar for everyone.
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post #15 of 48
1/2/10 at 4:16pm
I've been going with "two hundred one and oh." But I might switch to "two and oh-ten." Whichever one is the most annoying.
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post #16 of 48
1/2/10 at 4:16pm
Twenty ten. I lazily endorse laziness.
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post #17 of 48
1/2/10 at 5:06pm
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Originally Posted by Warren Peace View Post
Oh God, I smell the next "Chud Great Debate", like Avatar and The Dark Night. Every thread will devolve into discussions about how 2010 is the best year ever, or how it sucks balls and we're all sick of hearing about it. Devin will pen ten articles detailing how "twenty-tennies" are ruining the calendar for everyone.
ok...
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post #18 of 48
1/2/10 at 5:12pm
Two-zero one-zero. In lieu of that, who gives a shit?
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post #19 of 48
1/2/10 at 5:20pm
Twenty ten, but only because all the constant Olympic news coverage, and commercials we've been getting up here. I don't think twenty eleven rolls off the tongue the the same way, and I will switch back.

In fact, after twenty twelve and twenty twenty, none of the next century feel right without two thousand in front of it. I've now thought entirely too much about this.
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post #20 of 48
1/2/10 at 6:33pm
Noone was partying like it was nineteen hundred and ninety-nine, were they?
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post #21 of 48
1/2/10 at 6:41pm
I pronounce it "Twenty Ten" but it doesn't mean I like it. I'm just lazy.
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post #22 of 48
1/2/10 at 6:43pm
Why isn't "two thousand and ten" an option?
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post #23 of 48
1/2/10 at 7:03pm
It's weird how people latch onto things like this. Yesterday afternoon I had no idea this was on the hive mind, now I can't escape the conversation. I guess people needed something even more retarded to talk about than when the new decade really begins.
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post #24 of 48
1/2/10 at 7:54pm
Now that we're out of the single digits and no longer running the risk of people thinking you're just saying 28 or 29, I'm going with Twenty-Ten.
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post #25 of 48
1/2/10 at 7:58pm
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Originally Posted by James May View Post
Noone was partying like it was nineteen hundred and ninety-nine, were they?
Winner.
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post #26 of 48
1/2/10 at 7:58pm
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Originally Posted by Alex Augustine View Post
Why isn't "two thousand and ten" an option?
I learned in English class, in 6th grade I think, that with numerals, you add the word "and" when replacing a decimal.

Like when writing out a check, say, for 2,010.62.

Two thousand ten dollars and sixty-two cents would be the correct way to write it.

EDIT: As for the poll at hand, I'm partial to saying "Twenty-ten", but I don't doubt I'll say it the other way.
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post #27 of 48
1/2/10 at 8:21pm
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Originally Posted by James May View Post
Noone was partying like it was nineteen hundred and ninety-nine, were they?
Technically, the comparison point would be the even more annoying "one-thousand nine hundred ninety-nine"; otherwise, the pro-sounding-out-every-place folks would be arguing for "twenty-hundred ten" rather than "two-thousand ten."

Since there will be inconsistency with either choice (either with the short form used in preceding centuries or the long form we've used in the last decade), I'd say go with the one that yields the least inconsistency with the past and the most efficiency going forward (do you really want to burden our descendants - assuming telepathy or extinction doesn't make this a moot point - with "I live in the year two-thousand three-hundred forty-five?").

In other words, happy "twenty ten," everyone.
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post #28 of 48
1/2/10 at 8:28pm
I have five main ways so far, some of which I've designated as official:

1) Two thousand ten* (2010)
2) Two thousand and ten (2010)
3) Twenty Ten (2010)
4) Two Kay Ten (2K10)
5) Two Kay Ex* (2KX)

* Indicated official selection that I'll try to use most often in blog postings

PS I also refer to the previous decade as The Aughts... and you'd all do well to follow my lead. It's historically accurate, dammit!
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post #29 of 48
1/2/10 at 8:30pm
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Originally Posted by Diva View Post
I've said "two thousand" through "two thousand nine" for a decade now. Nobody says "twenty oh-nine". The pattern doesn't hold and I'm not about to change now, dammit!!! Except for maybe "twenty-twenty". That's just fun to say.
This is me too - I'm a "two-thousand-ten" person as well. And I'll probably also be a "twenty-twenty" person too - but I have ten years to be convinced otherwise.
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post #30 of 48
1/2/10 at 8:44pm
What about Will Two Kay Ex, Kate?
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post #31 of 48
1/2/10 at 8:45pm
"Two-hundred and one...oh!"
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post #32 of 48
1/2/10 at 8:49pm
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Originally Posted by RathBandu View Post
What about Will Two Kay Ex, Kate?
I'm afraid that went over my head, Rath But I'd be curious to have your joke explained to me!
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post #33 of 48
1/2/10 at 8:50pm
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Originally Posted by Graham View Post
"Two-hundred and one...oh!"
Hahaha, yes, hilarious! I like that one, though I can say right now I probably won't use it much in real life because I doubt people would understand what I was talking about, unfortunately
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post #34 of 48
1/2/10 at 9:01pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWnFak7Lw3s
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post #35 of 48
1/2/10 at 11:08pm
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Originally Posted by Zollicoffer View Post
I learned in English class, in 6th grade I think, that with numerals, you add the word "and" when replacing a decimal.

Like when writing out a check, say, for 2,010.62.

Two thousand ten dollars and sixty-two cents would be the correct way to write it.

EDIT: As for the poll at hand, I'm partial to saying "Twenty-ten", but I don't doubt I'll say it the other way.
Exactly. It's bad grammar.

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Originally Posted by Ratty View Post
Winner.
FAIL! As I posted above, no one pronounced 2009 "twenty-oh-nine", did they? No, you said "two thousand nine".
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post #36 of 48
1/2/10 at 11:46pm
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Originally Posted by McIrish View Post
Twenty ten, but only because all the constant Olympic news coverage, and commercials we've been getting up here. I don't think twenty eleven rolls off the tongue the the same way, and I will switch back.

In fact, after twenty twelve and twenty twenty, none of the next century feel right without two thousand in front of it. I've now thought entirely too much about this.
I think all of the Twenty Twentys will be a delight to pronounce.

Twenty Twentyfive, here I come!
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post #37 of 48
1/2/10 at 11:46pm
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Originally Posted by Princess Kate View Post

PS I also refer to the previous decade as The Aughts... and you'd all do well to follow my lead. It's historically accurate, dammit!
My brother and I have been joking about doing this for 10 years now. Although we rarely actually say it in real conversations. For example, I could say I got married Aught-Four. My son was born in Aught-Six. I think this stems largely from our love for "The Sahwshank Redmption", wherein Brooks offhandedly says his prison term started in "Aught Five".

The fact that Kate also thinks this is cool saddens me. I'm even less likely to do it now.
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post #38 of 48
1/3/10 at 8:42pm
How do people pronounce the name of the sequel to "2001"? For me I've always called it Two-Thousand Ten. I've never considered pronouncing it differently.
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post #39 of 48
1/3/10 at 8:55pm
I seem to remember trailers and TV spots referring to 2010 (the film) as "two thousand ten" but in the many years since, I've heard lots of people refer to it as "twenty ten." I've gone with the latter myself most times. And I'm going with that for the actual year.
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post #40 of 48
1/3/10 at 9:03pm
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Originally Posted by IggytheBorg View Post
My brother and I have been joking about doing this for 10 years now. Although we rarely actually say it in real conversations. For example, I could say I got married Aught-Four. My son was born in Aught-Six. I think this stems largely from our love for "The Sahwshank Redmption", wherein Brooks offhandedly says his prison term started in "Aught Five".

The fact that Kate also thinks this is cool saddens me. I'm even less likely to do it now.
I never really ended up saying "Aught Five", etc, just because I enjoyed thinking about the new millenium and so "Two Thousand and BLANK" worked better for me. Plus, that's what everyone else was doing. Nineteen Aught Seven rolls off the tongue better than "Two Thousand Aught Seven", IMHO.

But now that we're trying to come up with names for the last decade, the idea of anything other than The Aughts seems absurd. The names I hear get tossed around are literally painful to listen to

"The Naughties" "The Aughties" "The Zeroes"

Why come up with lame cutesy names when there is already an accepted naming convention? It bothers me that all these people with no sense of history suddenly feel that they have to "invent" a name for the first decade of a new century when there is already a perfectly fine naming system in place


I am not sure what to call this decade though, and I cannot remember any specific names that were used in the 20th century for "The Teens" either.


PS No worries, Iggy, it just means we're both super cool people
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post #41 of 48
1/3/10 at 9:16pm
Can we agree that anyone who says oh-ten is an idiot?
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post #42 of 48
1/7/10 at 5:43pm
Two Thousand and Ten
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post #43 of 48
1/7/10 at 5:47pm
The Daily Show announcer says "Two-Thousand and Ten".
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post #44 of 48
1/7/10 at 5:56pm
Thread Starter 
Yes!
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post #45 of 48
1/7/10 at 6:01pm
Who the fuck cares.

Just to piss people off I'll say Two Zero One Zero.
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post #46 of 48
1/7/10 at 6:09pm
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Originally Posted by billylove View Post
Just to piss people off I'll say Two Zero One Zero.
You do, and you'll be friendless for an entire decade, mister!
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post #47 of 48
1/7/10 at 6:26pm
I went with "However the fuck I want." Just to be a pain.

In fact, I'll change it up every so often 'twixt Two Thousand Ten, Twenty Ten, Two Years Until We All DIE, Aught Ten, In The Year Of Our Lord Two Thousand and Ten (if I'm feeling especially dramatic), the Year of The Tiger, or if I'm feeling particularly jaunty, Phyllis.
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post #48 of 48
1/7/10 at 8:53pm
I like that the BBC poll came up with "The Naughties" for the '00-'09 decade. What will we call the 2010 decade? Twenteens? Ugh.

Twenty ten is, I suppose, what I'd call it, if I ever had a reason to say the name of the year out loud.
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