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March 26, 2009
A most challenging puzzle
2008 CALENDAR- HANG PHOTOS, originally uploaded by ErinRuth.
Here's a stumper for you. I've noticed a lot of people like to refer to the year by just the last two digits, as in, "The White Sox won the World Series in '05." They'll say it as Oh-Five. Or "I was born in '87." You get the drift.
But, it occurred to me, this isn't going to sound the same as when 2010 hits next year. Are people going to simply call it ten? Or oh-ten? Or is it ought-ten? Does anyone even care? "My grandson was born in '11" just doesn't sound right to me.
Speaking of the upcoming decade (holy shit!), I've noticed a lot of newscasters will refer to the year as, say, twenty-ten, as in, "Chicago is bidding for the twenty-sixteen Olympics." No! It's the two-thousand-and-sixteen Olympics, not twenty-sixteen, you dolts. I don't care if the former is an extra two syllables.
Hey, ever wonder why the word monosyllabic is so long? Sorry.
Finally, here is one skill that I will never understand. On the Today Show, there was an uber-talented child with a reputed IQ of 170. Of his many skills, you can give him a date and he will tell you what day of the week it was. Unfortunately, he was obviously flustered by the beauty of Ann Curry, because when she asked him what day of the week her birthday would be in 2011, he was a day off. Whoops!
I think I'm going to learn how to do that.
entry no. 1337
Posted at March 26, 2009 10:55 AM