2015 - how do you say it?
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Topic: 2015 - how do you say it?
Posted By: Stool Man
Subject: 2015 - how do you say it?
Date Posted: March 12 2015 at 13:48
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How do you pronounce the number of this year? Obviously, those whose first language isn't English will say it in their own language - please translate what you'd say into English and vote accordingly, thankyou. ------------- rotten hound of the burnie crew |
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Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: March 12 2015 at 13:58
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First, no one in his right mind would write 2015. It's MMXV, you barbarian.  |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: March 12 2015 at 13:59
I picked option 2 ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
CPicard wrote:Posted By: bloodnarfer
Date Posted: March 12 2015 at 14:00
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i thought we switched from two thousand to twenty this decade ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ramza1316" rel="nofollow - www.last.fm/user/ramza1316 https://open.spotify.com/user/1211221845" rel="nofollow - https://open.spotify.com/user/1211221845 |
Posted By: bloodnarfer
Date Posted: March 12 2015 at 14:01
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I tried to get twenty oh-nine to catch on but it never happened... ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ramza1316" rel="nofollow - www.last.fm/user/ramza1316 https://open.spotify.com/user/1211221845" rel="nofollow - https://open.spotify.com/user/1211221845 |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: March 12 2015 at 14:07
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: March 12 2015 at 14:21
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Everyone I know here in the US says "two thousand fifteen" (aka Option 2), which is also the way we would say it in Italian. |
Posted By: bloodnarfer
Date Posted: March 12 2015 at 14:38
I don't know anyone who says "two thousand fifteen" but I was born in the year one thousand nine-hundred and ninety so what do I know.  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ramza1316" rel="nofollow - www.last.fm/user/ramza1316 https://open.spotify.com/user/1211221845" rel="nofollow - https://open.spotify.com/user/1211221845 |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: March 12 2015 at 14:41
Weird - almost everyone I know says "twenty-fifteen" (myself included) |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: March 12 2015 at 14:42
same tbh |
Posted By: Stool Man
Date Posted: March 12 2015 at 14:49
I've been trying since twenty hundred. I first heard it on the BBC when a Radio 4 announcer referred to the year as "twenty-oh-three" ------------- rotten hound of the burnie crew |
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: March 12 2015 at 14:57
"Twenty-oh-three"?  Sounds like the beginning of a nursery rhyme to me. |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: March 12 2015 at 15:01
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Well I say two thousand and fifteen. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: March 12 2015 at 15:21
peoplewho speak proper English will use 'and'  ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: TeleStrat
Date Posted: March 12 2015 at 15:31
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From 2000 thru 2009 people around here said two thousand - two thousand nine. From 2010 on they said twenty ten - twenty fifteen. During the first decade some said oh three. oh seven, and just expected people to know what they meant.
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Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: March 12 2015 at 17:11
+1 -------------   
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Posted By: sublime220
Date Posted: March 12 2015 at 17:20
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Until I was ten, I used to say two-zero-one-five. Currently say the second. ------------- There is no dark side in the moon, really... Matter of fact, it's all dark... |
Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: March 12 2015 at 17:52
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Posted By: Cailyn
Date Posted: March 12 2015 at 21:15
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Twenty Fifteen for me. ------------- http://www.cailynmusic.com |
Posted By: Smurph
Date Posted: March 12 2015 at 22:20
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twonfift ------------- http://pseudosentai.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - http://pseudosentai.bandcamp.com/ wtf |
Posted By: Polymorphia
Date Posted: March 12 2015 at 22:36
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Most people switched to twenty this decade, but I didn't for a while. ------------- https://dreamwindow.bandcamp.com/releases" rel="nofollow - My Music 
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Posted By: infocat
Date Posted: March 12 2015 at 23:25
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1 or 2, depending on mood! ------------- -- Frank Swarbrick Belief is not Truth. |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: March 13 2015 at 00:31
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I've used the lot. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: March 13 2015 at 01:39
Quarter past eight  ------------- 
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: March 13 2015 at 03:42
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Option #3; sometimes, when this one sounds too formal to my ears, #1. ------------- 
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: March 13 2015 at 07:50
Reminds me of things from last century of an uncertain age being described as dating from "nineteen-oh-blimey". I'm language-lazy when speaking even though I'm overly verbose in writing. 20-15 is shorter and easier to say than any of the tongue-twisting alternatives. I would be looking forward to the time when we can drop the "20" all together without the confusion of which century we're talking about, but alas I fear I shall not live that long. Like when did '68 mean 1968 and not 1868 or 1768, and when will it mean 2068? ------------- What? |
Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: March 13 2015 at 07:59
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Twenty-fifteen. It only makes sense after the last century being "nineteen-eighty-five" or whatever. In the olden days people would say 1905 as "nineteen-aught-five" - indeed, Clutch have a song called " '05 " which is pronounced "aught-five". I tried to popularize "twenty-aught-whatever" but it didn't catch on. ------------- "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken |
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: March 13 2015 at 08:10
When people able to remember the 20th century will be a minority, I guess. In 2068, I would be 90 years old. I'm not sure I would like to live in a world where younglings would say: "it was in three-eight" for talking about the year 2038. |
Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: March 13 2015 at 10:48
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Ever since first January, I have found pronouncing it 2015 has been more than sufficient ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: March 13 2015 at 14:14
Seriously...? A poll on how one says 2015...?
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Posted By: Stool Man
Date Posted: March 13 2015 at 17:11
Given that all three options have several votes, it's a perfectly valid subject for a poll. The world can't agree on how to say what year it is. ------------- rotten hound of the burnie crew |
Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: March 13 2015 at 17:15
And in Polish we say it this way too.  ------------- "Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent." Charles Bukowski |
Posted By: Metalmarsh89
Date Posted: April 06 2015 at 20:03
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I here about equal amounts of each of the first two options. I say twenty-fifteen. I realized saying twenty-o-seven sounds a bit odd, but back in the 90's we were saying nineteen-ninety-two, not one thousand nine hundred twenty-two. It makes sense to me to revert back to that method. I realize this method only makes sense while there are four digits in the year, but we've only got about 7,985 years until we have to worry about that.  ------------- Want to play mafia? Visit http://www.mafiathesyndicate.com" rel="nofollow - here . |
Posted By: aglasshouse
Date Posted: April 07 2015 at 08:31
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There's a twenty and a fifteen. What do you expect me to do, I'm a simple man. ------------- http://fryingpanmedia.com |
Posted By: Green Shield Stamp
Date Posted: April 07 2015 at 16:02
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In England we say two thousand and fifteen. In the USA coordinating conjunctions are often dropped. As the USA is the biggest influence on English language usage, the coordinating conjunction will (I am sure) gradually become neglected by native English speakers in the next few decades. ------------- Haiku Writing a poem With seventeen syllables Is very diffic.... |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: April 07 2015 at 17:43
In Brazil (and I believe in all the Lusosphere) we say: dois (two) mil (thousand) e (and) quinze (fifiteen). ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: Formentera Lady
Date Posted: May 14 2015 at 10:58
And in German as well ------------- http://theprogressiveweb.blogspot.de" rel="nofollow - Visit me in Second Life to talk about music. |
Posted By: RoeDent
Date Posted: June 08 2015 at 07:42
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Twenty fifteen. It was only at the start of this decade that the following realization hit me: We could (maybe should) have been saying "Twenty Oh-[#]" through the first decade of this century, like we say "Nineteen Oh-[#]" for the first decade of the 20th century. Same number of syllables, so it's no more a mouthful than "19--". With "Two thousand (and)...", it will eventually get to be quite a mouthful. "Saturday the Twenty-Seventh of February, Two Thousand and Seventy-Seven". (PS. I've just checked it, and that will be an actual date.)
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