toomanypancakes@crazypeople.online to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-27 days agoWhat's your entirely unimportant and inconsequential hot take?message-squaremessage-square721fedilinkarrow-up1256arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1254arrow-down1message-squareWhat's your entirely unimportant and inconsequential hot take?toomanypancakes@crazypeople.online to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-27 days agomessage-square721fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareBoozilla@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 days agoAgreed. And at this point people should say all recent years as “twenty-twenty-six”, etc. The few people who still insist on saying “two-thousand and” make me grind my teeth.
minus-squareelephantium@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 days agoTwenty-nine. Wdym 2009 doesn’t count as a recent year? :'(
minus-squareBoozilla@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-25 days ago2009 = “two thousand nine” (or “twenty oh-nine” if you’re a time traveler from a previous century). 2026 = “twenty twenty-six”. If you say “two thousand AND twenty-six”…I assume you probably write your name in your underwear.
Agreed. And at this point people should say all recent years as “twenty-twenty-six”, etc. The few people who still insist on saying “two-thousand and” make me grind my teeth.
Twenty-nine.
Wdym 2009 doesn’t count as a recent year? :'(
2009 = “two thousand nine” (or “twenty oh-nine” if you’re a time traveler from a previous century).
2026 = “twenty twenty-six”.
If you say “two thousand AND twenty-six”…I assume you probably write your name in your underwear.