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Pssst! 2010 does not kick off a new decade
Nashua Telegraph ^
| 12/31/09
| W.B. Heffernan Jr.
Posted on 12/31/2009 2:36:00 PM PST by La Enchiladita
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To: La Enchiladita
Okay, I get it, but by this logic you would also say that a 20-year-old is in his teens or a 50-year-old is in his forties. Base-10 system and all, we just don’t do it. IMO, this is a case where the intuitive, practical understanding of the general public has got to trump the esoteric mathematical correctness of a few ultra-literal snobs.
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posted on
12/31/2009 3:28:12 PM PST
by
FelixFelicis
(When can we *change* back? [Get yer bumper sticker at www.cafepress.com/deepright!])
To: La Enchiladita
I also say it will be “twenty-ten” not “two-thousand and ten” ... as in “nineteen-ten” not “one-thousand nine hundred and ten” the way the media morons would say it ...
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posted on
12/31/2009 3:28:45 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
To: La Enchiladita
>> The year 1 A.D. ended one year after the birth of Christ.
When did it begin?
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posted on
12/31/2009 3:29:10 PM PST
by
Gene Eric
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To: DennisR
Our calendar purportedly begins with the birth of Christ in 0 A.D., right?Wrong. There was no year "0".
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posted on
12/31/2009 3:29:56 PM PST
by
Inyo-Mono
(Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
To: FelixFelicis
a few ultra-literal snobs. Oh gosh, I am so busted:^)
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posted on
12/31/2009 3:30:55 PM PST
by
La Enchiladita
(The Light shines in the darkness.)
To: Gene Eric
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posted on
12/31/2009 3:31:26 PM PST
by
La Enchiladita
(The Light shines in the darkness.)
To: BigSkyFreeper
Aha. So now we know why the dreaded Y2K collapse never happened when 2000 AD started!
To: Inyo-Mono
Wrong. There was no year "0". You mean the First State Bank of Bethlehem didn't have a year "0" calendar?
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posted on
12/31/2009 3:32:08 PM PST
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys: Can't fly, can't ski, can't drive, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best.)
To: Inyo-Mono
>> Wrong. There was no year “0”.
Then what year preceded 1 AD, 1 BC? What followed 1 BC?
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posted on
12/31/2009 3:32:25 PM PST
by
Gene Eric
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To: SnakeDoctor
Yeah, let’s get on to more important things — like is it “two thousand and ten” or “twenty-ten”? Or, will there REALLY be a “blue moon” tonight....
Anyway, Happy New Year to everyone!
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posted on
12/31/2009 3:34:15 PM PST
by
mikrofon
(At least I *think* it's a new year...)
To: Petronski
IMHO, the eighties didn’t start until Jan 20, 1981. That was when the last of the rubbish from the 1970s was swept to the curb and dumped back in Georgia.
To: La Enchiladita
in our decimal system any number ending in zero is the final number in a group of 10. A number ending in two zeroes is the final number in a group of a hundred, whilst three zeroes is the last in a group of a thousand, etc. I am in total agreement as to decimal numbers, I still have a hard time with AM starting at 12 then running 1 through 11...
Regards,
GtG
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posted on
12/31/2009 3:35:22 PM PST
by
Gandalf_The_Gray
(I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
To: Inyo-Mono; DennisR
And calendars weren’t based on the birth of Christ. The Julian was created 46 years before Christ was born and the Gregorian calendar (invented by Pope Gregory XIII) was created 1582 years after Christ was born.
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posted on
12/31/2009 3:35:39 PM PST
by
BigSkyFreeper
("Ked Tennedy would have been plowed... I mean, proud today..." - Senator Max Baucus (Drunk-MT))
To: MediaMole
IMHO, the eighties didnt start until Jan 20, 1981.Bizarre.
So a year pronounced "nineteen eighty" is not part of the eighties, but a year pronounced "nineteen ninety" is?
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posted on
12/31/2009 3:36:49 PM PST
by
Petronski
(In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
To: hellbender
Y2K was doomed to happen from the moment computer chips were made. No one back then ever thought computers would have been around this long.
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posted on
12/31/2009 3:37:34 PM PST
by
BigSkyFreeper
("Ked Tennedy would have been plowed... I mean, proud today..." - Senator Max Baucus (Drunk-MT))
To: Gene Eric
Then what year preceded 1 AD, 1 BC? What followed 1 BC?1 B.C. went right into 1 A.D. with no year 0 in between.
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posted on
12/31/2009 3:37:42 PM PST
by
Inyo-Mono
(Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
To: mikrofon
Or, will there REALLY be a blue moon tonight....Only if it's clear out tonight! The next New Years blue moon won't happen until 2029!
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posted on
12/31/2009 3:40:20 PM PST
by
BigSkyFreeper
("Ked Tennedy would have been plowed... I mean, proud today..." - Senator Max Baucus (Drunk-MT))
To: Gene Eric
That is a problem, isn’t it?
As far as I know, theoretically, the year Christ was born was AD 1 (the year of our Lord 1, or the first year of our Lord).
The year before that was 1 BC.
But since He was probably born between 4 and 6 BC, this whole argument is really very silly (except in the case of the ordinal numbering of centuries, an entirely artificial construct anyway).
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posted on
12/31/2009 3:40:26 PM PST
by
Petronski
(In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
To: DennisR
>> Our calendar purportedly begins with the birth of Christ in 0 A.D., right?
This is crazy. Of course there’s 0 AD. There’s also -1 AD, and there’s also 3010 AD.
A decade is a period of 10 years. From the zero time AD, the 10 year interval completes 10 years thereafter.
All I want to know is how many days elapsed between zero time AD and what’s considered to be 1 AD. If zero, then the decade intervals are 1, 11, 21, 31... But if 1 year elapsed between time zero AD and 1 AD, then the decade intervals are 0, 10, 20, 30...
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posted on
12/31/2009 3:42:36 PM PST
by
Gene Eric
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To: La Enchiladita
Glad to know that the year 2000 was part of the 90’s....
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posted on
12/31/2009 3:43:52 PM PST
by
freebilly
(No wonder the left has a boner for Obama. There's CIALIS in soCIALISt....)
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