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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsIt's now TWENTY years after "Y2K"...
What do you typically say when talking about the current year?4 votes, 0 passes | Time left: Unlimited | |
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
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TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)1. "How the Hell did we get into this mess?"
Actually 20-20
Blues Heron
(5,937 posts)2. twenty twenty vision all the way!
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"....
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.
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"
It just fits with "Sixties, Seventies, Eighties, Nineties"......