21st Century Abbreviations

[Aschenbach]

When will people start refering to a year by the last two numbers like they did in 99?

[Octavius]

Is that 1899 or 1999 ?

[rampart]

I am recalling how my elderly relatives discussed spoke about things in the early 1900s. They would refer to the first decade with an "ought" and the year. So Auntie, born in 1902, was said to have been born in "ought two." The word "ought" is long gone, but I suppose we might say, "oh two." So my guess is we will eventually refer to the first years of the decade as "oh" and the last year.

Perhaps our second decade of this century will be the "twenty" plus the next two digits. We might say 2018 as twenty-eighteen.

I would guess we would occasionally drop from speech the "twenty" at that time. Perhaps, for example, saying the Olympics back in '32 were held in such and such a place rather than saying twenty-thirty-two.

Interesting.

[rampart]

If we had an edit button, I would delete the word "spoke" from my first sentence. Sorry 'bout that.

[commoner]

...I just wish we could standardize the way we do the day/month thing....is March the 1st, 1/3 or 3/1?..... now that can be confusing...commoner.

[Skids]

I think we should refer to this decade as the Noughties.

[bernardo]

I reckon it will be in 2010 (twenty-ten) which will come after 2009 (two thousand and nine).

[brachiopod]

I can see the 'twenty-' being adopted after the teens end. ie Twenty twenty-two  for 2022. 'Twenty eighteen' somehow sounds a bit odd - but does 'two-thousand and eighteen' sound better?

As Zager and Evans said, in the year 2525 (if any man is still alive)....

[Octavius]

I imagine in 2525 we will be saying things like

....hell yeah y'all, back in 20, 5 when we wuz waging war against those terrorists in eye rack.... 

[worder]

well, Aschen, the future is now, cause i do that all the time at work. when writing checks, they can't remember what year it is. and that's nothing, many folks are not even sure where they are at.