2015 - how do you say it? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

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--
Frank Swarbrick
Belief is not Truth.

Quarter past eight Clown

Stool Man wrote:

bloodnarfer wrote:

I tried to get twenty oh-nine to catch on but it never happened...

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"

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?

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Dean wrote:

Stool Man wrote:

bloodnarfer wrote:

I tried to get twenty oh-nine to catch on but it never happened...

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"

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?

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. Stern Smile

Seriously...? A poll on how one says 2015...?

Edited by dr wu23 - March 13 2015 at 14:14

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Raff wrote:

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.

And in Polish we say it this way too. Smile

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There's a twenty and a fifteen. What do you expect me to do, I'm a simple man.

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Tuzvihar wrote:

Raff wrote:

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.

And in Polish we say it this way too. Smile

In Brazil (and I believe in all the Lusosphere) we say:

dois (two) mil (thousand) e (and) quinze (fifiteen). Smile

Guigo

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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.)

Edited by RoeDent - June 08 2015 at 07:46

Poll Question: How do you say 2015 when you speak?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Twenty fifteen	23	[51.11%]
Two thousand fifteen	15	[33.33%]
Two thousand and fifteen	7	[15.56%]
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