cause im interested

2007-05-25 18:08:28

#26

Scorpion0x17: can detect anyone's visible post count...; +691|6773|Cambridge (UK)

Spidery_Yoda wrote:
leetkyle wrote:
Lol! Since when did you choose which option is right? Everyone of them is correct, it is just most people (including myself) choose option B. It's numbers, there are multiple ways of saying it! Moron.
Actually, it is the correct one. The date '1970' isnt pronounced ninteen hundred and 70, and its not pronounced 1 thousand, 9 hundred and 70 is it?

No. Its pronounced ninteen seventy. And if you pronounce it any other way you really are a retard.

So yes, 21-42 IS the correct way. Actually. Idiot.

But the year 2007 isn't pronounced 'twenty seven' it's pronounced 'two thousand and seven'.

And, fyi, people used to say 19-hundred-and...

Actually.

Idiot.

2007-05-25 18:14:15

#27

Cheez: Herman is a warmaphrodite; +1,027|6446|King Of The Islands

Well I've never heard anyone pronounce it Battlefield One-Nine Four-Two...

My state was founded by Batman. Your opinion is invalid.

2007-05-25 18:52:25

#28

Undetected_Killer: Le fuck?; +98|6293|FIYAH FIYAH FIYAAAAAAH

Too-won-for-eight.

2007-05-25 18:53:20

#29

cowami: OY, BITCHTITS!; +1,106|6297|Noo Yawk, Noo Yawk

Undetected_Killer wrote:
Too-won-for-eight.

Ha, someone cain't read/count.

Twenty one forty two.

2007-05-26 01:47:00

#30

Bi0nicSeaH0rse: Member; +1|6220

Spidery_Yoda wrote:
leetkyle wrote:
Lol! Since when did you choose which option is right? Everyone of them is correct, it is just most people (including myself) choose option B. It's numbers, there are multiple ways of saying it! Moron.
Actually, it is the correct one. The date '1970' isnt pronounced ninteen hundred and 70, and its not pronounced 1 thousand, 9 hundred and 70 is it?

No. Its pronounced ninteen seventy. And if you pronounce it any other way you really are a retard.

So yes, 21-42 IS the correct way. Actually. Idiot.

QFT PWNT IMO

2007-05-26 01:50:53

#31

DerGraueWolf: aka Nekrodamus; +52|6740|Germany, near Koblenz

thareaper254 wrote:
zweitausendeinhundertzweiundvierzig is what I call it.

Me too, since option three is the way we call actual years in German. In our language the "xx hundred" style is only popular for the periods 100 to 999 and 1100 to 1999 and the xx - yy style doesn't exist at all.

So if a German says 21 - 42, he obviously played to much army games.

Last edited by DerGraueWolf (2007-05-26 01:53:36)

2007-05-26 03:05:47

#32

Spidery_Yoda: Member; +399|6278

Scorpion0x17 wrote:
But the year 2007 isn't pronounced 'twenty seven' it's pronounced 'two thousand and seven'.

And, fyi, people used to say 19-hundred-and...

Actually.

Idiot.

2007 isnt pronounced 27 because, obviously when its close to the beginning of a new millenium its easier to just say 2000 + 7. However as soon as its the year 2100 i'm fairly sure that'll be pronounced 'twenty one hundred', and so on until the 2 zero's at the end get replaced with something else. Then it'll be 2110. And how are you planning on pronouncing that? 2 thousand one hundred and ten? two one one zero? No. It'll be 21-10, because thats how dates have always been pronounced.

2007-05-26 14:10:19

#33

Havok: Nymphomaniac Treatment Specialist; +302|6682|Florida, United States

Spidery_Yoda wrote:
Scorpion0x17 wrote:
But the year 2007 isn't pronounced 'twenty seven' it's pronounced 'two thousand and seven'.

And, fyi, people used to say 19-hundred-and...

Actually.

Idiot.
2007 isnt pronounced 27 because, obviously when its close to the beginning of a new millenium its easier to just say 2000 + 7. However as soon as its the year 2100 i'm fairly sure that'll be pronounced 'twenty one hundred', and so on until the 2 zero's at the end get replaced with something else. Then it'll be 2110. And how are you planning on pronouncing that? 2 thousand one hundred and ten? two one one zero? No. It'll be 21-10, because thats how dates have always been pronounced.

Then how do you pronounce 2107? Twenty one - 0 Seven? Then why not call 2007 Twenty - 0 Seven.

2007-05-26 15:50:27

#34

Spidery_Yoda: Member; +399|6278

Havok wrote:
Then how do you pronounce 2107? Twenty one - 0 Seven? Then why not call 2007 Twenty - 0 Seven.

Well.. because you just don't. I'm tired. Can't try and think of a proper reply just now. But thats pretty much it. You just don't. That would be silly.

2007-05-26 16:06:36

#35

Scorpion0x17: can detect anyone's visible post count...; +691|6773|Cambridge (UK)

Spidery_Yoda wrote:
Havok wrote:
Then how do you pronounce 2107? Twenty one - 0 Seven? Then why not call 2007 Twenty - 0 Seven.
Well.. because you just don't. I'm tired. Can't try and think of a proper reply just now. But thats pretty much it. You just don't. That would be silly.

No, the point is, that wouldn't be silly. It used to be common parlance to say things like "Ninteen Hundred and Thirty Two". Now it's "Nineteen Thirty Two". Language changes. No one way to pronounce anything is anymore 'right' or 'wrong' in any kind of absolute sense. There is only 'how we currently pronounce it'.

2007-05-26 16:10:48

#36

l41e: Member; +677|6656

Battlefield of the Year Two Thousand One Hundred and Forty-Two Anno Domini by the Gregorian Calendar.

2007-05-26 16:14:26

#37

CruZ4dR: Cereal Killer; +145|6664|The View From The Afternoon

tjueenførtito

2007-05-26 16:17:22

#38

Spidery_Yoda: Member; +399|6278

Scorpion0x17 wrote:
There is only 'how we currently pronounce it'.

Well then. And 21-42 is 'how we currently pronounce it', and so it is the correct way of saying it.

2007-05-26 16:34:45

#39

Zigmat: Member; +2|6188

How I see it is if the last two digits of the year is less than 10 (e.g. 2109), then you would say "oh [number]" so for example 2109 == twenty-one oh-nine. If you don't say the "oh" then it would sound like the year 219.

But if the last two digits are 10 or higher then just say that number (2142 == "twenty-one forty-two").

OK, you can say there are some special occasions like millennia and [last two digits] < 10 - you would say two-thousand and seven.

That's how I would go about pronouncing years.

2007-05-26 16:39:43

#40

Scorpion0x17: can detect anyone's visible post count...; +691|6773|Cambridge (UK)

Spidery_Yoda wrote:
Scorpion0x17 wrote:
There is only 'how we currently pronounce it'.
Well then. And 21-42 is 'how we currently pronounce it', and so it is the correct way of saying it.

No, it is the 'currently accepted pronounciation'. As I said before there is no such thing as 'the correct way of saying it'.

2007-05-26 16:40:51