Listening to Eva watching CNN Student News

[conuly]

Apparently, their style is still to say "two thousand eighteen" and so on.

Poll #19780

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 104

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What do you call this year?

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Twenty eighteen
78 (75.0%)

Two thousand eighteen
26 (25.0%)

Let's see if I'm in the majority!

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The ‘g’ in Google’s Old Logo Is Really Weird (I just now realized that The Atlantic uses two different typefaces - with two different g styles! - for its captions and subtitles as it does for its titles and main text. I could've gone my whole life without noticing that, and now I'll see it every time.)

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Comments

[jesuswasbatman]

Two thousand and eighteen.

[moxie_man]

What? No "Other" choice.

What do I call this year? Same as last: Horrible. (chuckle)

[conuly]

Yes, but what's the official name?

[moxie_man]

Oh, I answered the poll and my choice is in the majority.

[bibliofile]

I wouldn't have minded an option for either/both.

All I remember from offical style manuals is that there's no "and" in there. (So, probably 2000 18?)

[goss]

I just realized something. If I'm referring to the year in regular conversation, I usually say "Twenty-Eighteen".

But if I'm complaining about the year out loud, I say "OMG, it is TWO THOUSAND EIGHTEEN, why are we still having these issues!", like a parent scolding a child and using their entire proper name (eg. "Clark Jerome Kent, you pick that up right now!"). LOL.

[agoodwinsmith]

Interesting point.

[konsectatrix]

2000-18; the "and" tends to get dropped.

I blame my job and a lot of interactions with automated systems.

[lusentoj]

huh. i say "nineteen thirty", "seventeen fifteen" and so on but i've NEVER said "twenty" anything and neither does my family. i don't seem to recall the majority of people in my hometown area saying "twenty..." either, but maybe that's just fuzzy memories. of course now i live abroad so i don't hear fluent spoken english so much, maybe the huge trend is "twenty..." now...

[colls]

I loved the link about DS9 and baseball - thank you!

[glinda]

My instinct is to say I use both interchangeably, but actually I realised that I used to say 20 whatever (20 12, 20 13 etc) but these days I say two thousand and whatever. I think this is because I work across two languages and in the other language the year structure is two-thousand-and-etc - da mhile 's a h-ochd deug - so I've come to think of the years that way to make it easier to mentally switch between languages.

[grammarwoman]

The Icons Unmasked images are entertaining and clever for the most part, but some are WRONG BAD NO WRONG BAD.

[conuly]

:D

[pauamma]

"deux mille dix-huit"

[greghousesgf]

the school lunch article was pretty interesting but it looked like those Ethiopian kids were eating sand. Also, the captions were repeatedly claiming the kids in most of the pictures were "enjoying" lunch when they didn't look happy at all.
That Homeroom restaurant is right near where I live and frankly, anyone who gets grabby with waitstaff deserves to have food dumped on their head IMHO.

[agoodwinsmith]

You need to run the poll again with a related age-range poll to see whether it is age-dependent. Since you are still menstruating and I am not (I was going to tell you the zits continue, but I didn't want to break your heart), I am an older phoggie than you. I would be interested to see whether the divide occurs between people who have lived in a nineteen year and people who have not.

[conuly]

I'm pretty sure most of my readers are older than 25....

[saraqael]

Those Japanese cartoons are hilarious.

[siderea]

I’m a female chef. Here’s how my restaurant dealt with harassment from customers.

Ooh, very nice.

[peristaltor]

A general complaint, nothing directed at you: Screw you, Bezos, and your stupid paywall.

Journalism Dies Behind Paywalls… and it should.

[conuly]

The Washington Post paywall is a complete and utter joke. Once the text loads, hit escape and you'll bypass the paywall. (Or just delete cookies.)

[peristaltor]

You must have a different browser or something, 'cause I'm stymied (or at least Firefox is).

[conuly]

Works for me on Firefox, like a charm.