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NurseJackie

(42,862 posts)
Wed Feb 5, 2020, 08:14 PM Feb 2020

It's now TWENTY years after "Y2K"...

What do you typically say when talking about the current year?
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Twenty-twenty.
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Two-thousand twenty.
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Two-thousand and twenty.
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It's now TWENTY years after "Y2K"... (Original Post) NurseJackie Feb 2020 OP
"How the Hell did we get into this mess?" TheCowsCameHome Feb 2020 #1
twenty twenty vision all the way! Blues Heron Feb 2020 #2
The "warmup decades".... lastlib Feb 2020 #3
I tried to force myself to use "aught"... but it didn't work for me. NurseJackie Feb 2020 #4
Same with me, but I still call that decade the "Aughties" lastlib Feb 2020 #5

Blues Heron

(5,937 posts)
2. twenty twenty vision all the way!
Wed Feb 5, 2020, 08:27 PM
Feb 2020

i'm actually glad to be out of the warmup decades and into the real deal twenties which hopefully will be a decade of fun and music. We've got to shed this malaise (not you malaise!) if it's the last thing we do!

lastlib

(23,244 posts)
3. The "warmup decades"....
Thu Feb 6, 2020, 12:36 AM
Feb 2020

Are you referring to the "Aughties" and the "Teenies"??

Twenty-Aught-One, Twenty-Aught-Two, Twenty-Aught-Three....Twenty-Aught-Nine

Twenty-ThirTEEN, Twenty-FourTEEN, Twenty-FifTEEN.....

NurseJackie

(42,862 posts)
4. I tried to force myself to use "aught"... but it didn't work for me.
Thu Feb 6, 2020, 07:32 AM
Feb 2020

I tried to force myself to use "aught"... but it didn't work for me. Instead I said: Twenty-Oh-One, etc.

lastlib

(23,244 posts)
5. Same with me, but I still call that decade the "Aughties"
Thu Feb 6, 2020, 08:36 AM
Feb 2020

It just fits with "Sixties, Seventies, Eighties, Nineties"......

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