[QUOTE=sltungle;19419836]To Americans it is. To the rest of the world it's 'two-thousand and something'. We don't say things like, "one hundred four," it's "one hundred AND four."[/QUOTE]
I am american what the fuck are you talking about?
You don't say AND at all, it is wrong, and to any knowledgeable person you will look silly.
The only reason anybody wanted to get this far was so we could have the convenience of saying twenty ten.
If I had know we would have to say two-thousand-and-ten I would have blow my brains out 10 years ago.
[QUOTE=Skwee;19421051]I am american what the fuck are you talking about?
You don't say AND at all, it is wrong, and to any knowledgeable person you will look silly.[/QUOTE]
That's what I'm saying. AMERICANS don't say 'and'. I've lived in the UK, and now in Australia, and they all say 'and'. Foreign people that I've met that speak English ALSO say and.
Looks like you guys are the ones who are wrong, not us. How the fuck BEING LAZY AND NEGLECTING TO USE A WORD make you more knowledgeable?
We aren't being lazy, we are taught that AND is only used when you are saying a word with a decimal.
For example
1013.4 would be said One thousand thirteen and four tenths. (Or One thousand thirteen point four.)
Calling us lazy for following what we've been taught is rather foolish.
[QUOTE=Skwee;19421673]We aren't being lazy, we are taught that AND is only used when you are saying a word with a decimal.
For example
1013.4 would be said One thousand thirteen and four tenths. (Or One thousand thirteen point four.)
Calling us lazy for following what we've been taught is rather foolish.[/QUOTE]
Your teachers are lazy then.
[QUOTE=Murkrow;19421698]Your teachers are lazy then.[/QUOTE]
This is the truth.
Proof:
[QUOTE=Skwee;19421673]We aren't being lazy, we are taught that AND is only used when you are saying a word [b]with a decimal[/b].
[b]For example[/b]
[b]1013.4[/b] would be said One thousand thirteen and [b]four tenths[/b]. (Or One thousand thirteen point four.)[/QUOTE]
.4 is decimal, yet he said a fraction. In more civilized pastures we say 'and' twice when saying large numbers with fractions, for example: One hundred and twenty five and a third. If we're saying a decimal then we just say point, for example: One hundred and twenty five point three three three three three three three three three. If you mean to say Americans say: A thousand seventeen and five, then that's even more stupid.
I don't say 20-10 'cause it's mainstream. :smug:
The only one I'll say is 20-12 and that's to mock the 2012 believers.
Two Thousand'n Ten. My English dialect prevents me from properly typing out how I'd say it. :v:
Twe'ty ten represe'tin yo
"Twenty-Ten" sounds too far away from my grasp IMO, compared to "Two-thousand-and-ten", which feels that it's right here, and I can handle it.
[QUOTE=Murkrow;19421698]Your teachers are lazy then.[/QUOTE]
The teachers aren't lazy if they go through the effort of teaching us it and correcting us every time we said 'and' when saying numbers.
[QUOTE=Darkcoder;19421761]This is the truth.
Proof:
.4 is decimal, yet he said a fraction. In more civilized pastures we say 'and' twice when saying large numbers with fractions, for example: One hundred and twenty five and a third. If we're saying a decimal then we just say point, for example: One hundred and twenty five point three three three three three three three three three. If you mean to say Americans say: A thousand seventeen and five, then that's even more stupid.[/QUOTE]
You are putting words in my mouth, I did not mean that we say a thousand seventeen and five, I said what I meant to say. Did you not read what I said in parenthesis? Also how do you not realize that a decimal IS a fraction? Just different ways of writing it?
We say 1066 as "ten-sixty-six" not "one-thousand-and-six".
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[QUOTE=Skwee;19422318]You are putting words in my mouth, I did not mean that we say a thousand seventeen and five, I said what I meant to say. Did you not read what I said in parenthesis? Also how do you not realize that a decimal IS a fraction? Just different ways of writing it?[/QUOTE]
They're not called parenthesis they're called brackets.
[QUOTE=Skwee;19422318]You are putting words in my mouth, I did not mean that we say a thousand seventeen and five, I said what I meant to say.[/QUOTE]
You said you not only omit the 'and' between the lowest integer grouping and the rest of the number(no idea what the technical term for the separation is), but that you used an 'and' as the verbal radix point, which would result in exactly what I described. Your example was that of an integer and a fraction which isn't the same as what you said before that, and even wrote a decimal before that: "1013.4".
[QUOTE=Skwee;19422318]Did you not read what I said in parenthesis?[/QUOTE]
Did you edit that in? I'm pretty sure I didn't see that originally. (Then again I doubt the forums check and modify all quotations upon edits so maybe I was wrong?)
[QUOTE=Skwee;19422318]Also how do you not realize that a decimal IS a fraction? Just different ways of writing it?[/QUOTE]
Which is an incredibly significant difference. This whole discussion is about the difference between two ways of saying something after all.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28Wa5L-fkkM&feature=related[/media]
5 more years ...
[QUOTE=Darkcoder;19422456]You said you not only omit the 'and' between the lowest integer grouping and the rest of the number(no idea what the technical term for the separation is), but that you used an 'and' as the verbal radix point, which would result in exactly what I described. Your example was that of an integer and a fraction which isn't the same as what you said before that, and even wrote a decimal before that: "1013.4".
Did you edit that in? I'm pretty sure I didn't see that originally. (Then again I doubt the forums check and modify all quotations upon edits so maybe I was wrong?)
.[/QUOTE]
Keep in mind that it is not specifically ME that is saying this, it is just what we are taught. I accept the fact that you were taught differently and that this discussion is rather pointless. So how about you just accept that we are taught differently as well?
No, I didn't edit it in.
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;19422445]We say 1066 as "ten-sixty-six" not "one-thousand-and-six".
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They're not called parenthesis they're called brackets.[/QUOTE]
[], <>, {}, and () are all brackets. Only ( and ) are parentheses. So why should I broaden the topic when I can be specific? That's rather silly.
What about the 22nd century? That'll be problematic.... "twenty one-oh-one?"
[QUOTE=Skwee;19422549][], <>, {}, and () are all brackets. Only ( and ) are parentheses. So why should I broaden the topic when I can be specific? That's rather silly.[/QUOTE]
In Britain we call them square brackets, arrows (?), curly brackets and brackets respectively.
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[QUOTE=Stene;19422589]What about the 22nd century? That'll be problematic.... "twenty one-oh-one?"[/QUOTE]
Better than "twenty-one-thousand-and-one".
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;19422608]In Britain we call them square brackets, arrows (?), curly brackets and brackets respectively.
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Better than "twenty-one-thousand-and-one".[/QUOTE]
I think you mean twenty-one-hundred :v: Although, I'm not a fan on calling anything after 900 a 'hundred' (unless, like with now, it's 'twenty ten,' I'm cool with that). I'm not EVER going to refer to 2004 as twenty-hundred and four, though.
We'll just say shit like 'twenty-one-fifty' in the 22nd century.
Twenty-Ten sounds better and I lol'd at the ad at the bottom.
[img]http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/4647/spearu.jpg[/img]
Twenty ten sounds good, it's short and it right to the point.
It's the same for me either way, in Portuguese(and quite a lot of other languages too) there are no variants. "dois mil e nove(2009), dois mil e dez(2010)"
So the only time I'll have to use it is here, on the Internet, and we all type 2010.
I seriously don't get why this is such a big fucking deal
ITT: People who said "Let's party like it's one thousand nine hundred and ninety nine!"
It's idiotic. Twenty ten is way simpler to say than twothousand ten.
Twenty fifty will be easier to say than twothousand fifty.
I say what I want and so far I haven't been corrected by anyone, nor correctedy anyone, because it's idiotic.
Who cares? I [B]aint[/B] one of them.
What about two oh ten.
Ironically, I was thinking about this yesterday.
I agree, it should be twenty-ten, but I'm not gonna go forcin' people to say it. Just sayin'.
Edit: Also, a lot of people on here are saying two thousand ten. I don't know if that is an American thing because over here I always hear people say two thousand [i]and[/i] ten, which is even more of a mouthfull.
Two thousand [B]and[/B] ten.
:smug:
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