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Title: The Tens? The Teens?
Post by: neXus on November 09, 2009, 11:19:25 AM
Next year will bring us out of the gay Naughties and into the...?
Tens?
Teens?

Either way another gay naming 10 years, lol.
Title: Re:The Tens? The Teens?
Post by: zpyder on November 09, 2009, 11:34:39 AM
Hmph. I was going to say teens, When you think back to 1918, 1914 I always think of it as nineteen-eighteen etc. However you never heard them called that in history lessons. Mind you history lessons for me rarely covered that era, favouring the 2nd world war and the industrial revolution really. I guess though theyre the nineteen-tens though, even if the actual years are teenagers...
Title: Re:The Tens? The Teens?
Post by: Clock'd 0Ne on November 09, 2009, 13:40:48 PM
Teens is just an anthropological expression though isnt it? I would have thought tens is the correct way, as poor as it sounds.

Title: Re:The Tens? The Teens?
Post by: Quixoticish on November 09, 2009, 13:51:26 PM
Quote from: Clockd 0NeTeens is just an anthropological expression though isnt it? I would have thought tens is the correct way, as poor as it sounds.


Any number that ends in "teen" is a teen, so 2010 and 2011 would be a bit difficult. I think "twenty tens" would be the most acceptable but its inevitable it will end up being "the tens". It just sounds unusual to us, well soon get used to it.
Title: Re:The Tens? The Teens?
Post by: Clock'd 0Ne on November 09, 2009, 13:54:18 PM
Youre totally right of course. :idea:

Reinitialising core systems...
Title: Re:The Tens? The Teens?
Post by: skidzilla on November 09, 2009, 14:17:49 PM
Quote from: Clockd 0NeReinitialising core systems...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem :P
Title: Re:The Tens? The Teens?
Post by: Mongoose on November 09, 2009, 14:19:35 PM
EPOCH FAIL!!!!!
Title: Re:The Tens? The Teens?
Post by: Clock'd 0Ne on November 09, 2009, 14:46:03 PM
Magneto-optical trap is now the coolest science term Ive read this year.
Title: Re:The Tens? The Teens?
Post by: Mongoose on November 10, 2009, 13:05:37 PM
Quote from: Clockd 0NeMagneto-optical trap is now the coolest science term Ive read this year.

No Mr Bond, there is no escape! you have been caught in my Magneto-Optical Trap!