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...and you'll be in the year 2007.

That's right: bouncing baby New Year is less than one million seconds away (http://www.timeanddate.com/date/dateadded.html?m1=1&d1=1&y1=2007&h1=0&i1=0&s1=0&type=sub&ay=&am=&ad=&ah=&ai=&as=1000000) (give or take a few hours depending on your time zone). Frankly, a million seconds lasts a lot longer than I thought...

Anyway, what are your hopes for the new year? Any resolutions? Predictions? Fears?

I'm willing to say three things at this point:

1. 2007 will bring us Spore.

2. 2007 will bring us Halo 3.

3. 2007 sounds a bit futuristic.

What about you?

NOTE: I accidently posted this yesterday, about 12 hours too early.
Consider this the official, accurate, on-time, super-cool, not-stupid version.

3. 2007 sounds a bit futuristic.

Ah but the big question is, are you still pronouncing it 'two thousand and seven' or has the novelty of the new millenium worn off yet and you're pronouncing it 'twenty oh seven', which sounds a lot less futuristic.

Twenty oh seven just sounds stupid. It's two thousand seven. You don't say And unless there's a decimal point.

"Three and four tenths" for instance.

Ah but the big question is, are you still pronouncing it 'two thousand and seven' or has the novelty of the new millenium worn off yet and you're pronouncing it 'twenty oh seven', which sounds a lot less futuristic.
I don't think that's how it works... would you call the year 1003 "ten oh three"? The "twenty [blank]" doesn't kick in 'till about 2013 or so, just because it gets to be a pain in the ass to say the long form.

This reminds me of the whole "What do we call the decade from 2000-2009?" thing...

This reminds me of the whole "What do we call the decade from 2000-2009?" thing...

I think in the future it may be best just to forget it even happened.

Well, if we're lucky, the rest of the decade will be fairly uneventful. I'm pretty damn sick of the events thus far.

i'm giving up drinking after new year. not for the whole year, maybe til i get my finals and my dissertation over with.

i'm giving up drinking after new year. not for the whole year, maybe til i get my finals and my dissertation over with.

ouch, dissertations suck.

This reminds me of the whole "What do we call the decade from 2000-2009?" thing...

I think we settled on "Otts" for that...

Twenty oh seven just sounds stupid. It's two thousand seven. You don't say And unless there's a decimal point.

Or unless you're British.

Honestly where you Brits learned to speak English.

Cow cow cow donkey moo, Dick on tv, I shall see, I shall see!

Ah but the big question is, are you still pronouncing it 'two thousand and seven' or has the novelty of the new millenium worn off yet and you're pronouncing it 'twenty oh seven', which sounds a lot less futuristic.
how does saying it as the actual number sound futuristic? does one-thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine sound any more futuristic then nineteen ninety-nine? I don't think so. BTW, the novelty of the new millenium lasted for only 2 months.

What about 2-double-oh-7? That'd sound shaken, not stirred.

Honestly where you Brits learned to speak English.

um... they invented the language.

um... they invented the language.

Facetious is my favorite word!

Ah but the big question is, are you still pronouncing it 'two thousand and seven' or has the novelty of the new millenium worn off yet and you're pronouncing it 'twenty oh seven', which sounds a lot less futuristic.
I'm thinking of the times, when in the last century, I would consider the old men that thrived in the ought-one through ought-nine years. Now, I realize that I, too, am one.

This also answers the question. The proper way to pronounce 2007 is "twenty ought seven".

um... they invented the language.

Is that true? I thought English, Old English anyway, was a combination of Celtic and German. Maybe invented is the right word, although evolved is a little closer.

Is that true? I thought English, Old English anyway, was a combination of Celtic and German. Maybe invented is the right word, although evolved is a little closer.

still, it's from england. not america. why do you think it's called english?

I'm thinking of the times, when in the last century, I would consider the old men that thrived in the ought-one through ought-nine years. Now, I realize that I, too, am one.

This also answers the question. The proper way to pronounce 2007 is "twenty ought seven".
no. Dwa tysiące siedem FTW!

I don't think that's how it works... would you call the year 1003 "ten oh three"? The "twenty [blank]" doesn't kick in 'till about 2013 or so, just because it gets to be a pain in the ass to say the long form.

This reminds me of the whole "What do we call the decade from 2000-2009?" thing...

I think people *do* call 1003 "ten oh three"...I've always heard the battle of hastings date spoken "ten sixty six" not "one thousand sixty six"...

Twenty oh seven just sounds stupid. It's two thousand seven. You don't say And unless there's a decimal point.

"Three and four tenths" for instance.

zwie und zwunty? my german is shakey, but I think the "and" in numbers is a pretty old convention in germanic languages. "two and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie..."

What about 2-double-oh-7? That'd sound shaken, not stirred.

I like it!

um... they invented the language.

nah, they just live where the people who inveted it do. I can probably claim as many ethnic british-islanders as ancestors as anybody who actually lives in the UK. we don't have the accent to prove it, but that's cause the actual islanders kicked us out -_- damn 17th century religious persecutions...

Is that true? I thought English, Old English anyway, was a combination of Celtic and German. Maybe invented is the right word, although evolved is a little closer.

not really alot of celtic in there at all. old english is almost entirely germanic. after the roman legions left for a short time a celtic+latin "romano-british" culture survived, but they were almost entirely wiped out by wave after wave of germanic invasions. pockets survived like wales and cornwall, but by and large the language is germanic in origin, with almost no celtic influence, relatively speaking. the romans and the normans both were very big on integrating with native peoples but controlling the power structures - so those periods have alot of linguistic syncretism going on, but the germans just sort of destroyed everything, I'm afraid. heh, thank god for the french and *non-linguistic* celtic influences on england...without them the place would be as culturally baleful as the rest of the nordic world. :rolleyes:

English has some roots in the languages of the Angles and the Saxons (England is england because it was Angle land I think).. but I think tis fairly accurate to say English was pilfered from just about every other language its encountered (particularly latin and greek) and will continue to do so :)

I had another point but I've forgotten it :( oh well, if I remember I'll post it later. I'm tired.

now how did this become a discussion about the english language.

now how did this become a discussion about the english language.

Magic.

Magic.

yeah, but i thought that it does not kick in until page 3. this is page 2.

...and you'll be in the year 2007.

That's right: bouncing baby New Year is less than one million seconds away (http://www.timeanddate.com/date/dateadded.html?m1=1&d1=1&y1=2007&h1=0&i1=0&s1=0&type=sub&ay=&am=&ad=&ah=&ai=&as=1000000) (give or take a few hours depending on your time zone). Frankly, a million seconds lasts a lot longer than I thought...

Anyway, what are your hopes for the new year? Any resolutions? Predictions? Fears?

I'm willing to say three things at this point:

1. 2007 will bring us Spore.

2. 2007 will bring us Halo 3.

3. 2007 sounds a bit futuristic.

What about you?

NOTE: I accidently posted this yesterday, about 12 hours too early.
Consider this the official, accurate, on-time, super-cool, not-stupid version.
Prediction: there will be 2 007 movies in 2007!!:D

now how did this become a discussion about the english language.
'Cause it's one of my threads? >_<