...are u going to say,"Two thousand and ten", or "Twenty ten"?

...im going to start saying 2010 as twenty ten....think it sounds more futuristic...wooohhooo...lol..

Oops.. i am not yet decided.. actually, i like future but afraid of getting old.. O_o)

I have many ways to read aloud the year number, depending on the context.

When writing, I insist on writing the year with 4 digits. When I see a number series like 04-02-11 on a product of unknown origin, I do not have any idea which one is a year, a month, or a day.

with Puti and it being dependant on der context...if its an expiration dat and it whatever it is. looks ages old, 0banged up lots,and pieces/parts missing i'd automatically think its way past its experation date...

In Sweden, if I try to translate this, we say;
20 hundred ten.

two thousand ten

Here the custom is twenty oh nine but don't go by us. There used to be a major Cherokee settlement here and some of the white settlements are expressed in terms of how many miles it took to get there. Thus there's the town of Six Mile. Once it gets past single digits towns come up with names like Ten and Four.

They value their ability to add, 'ya know?

Puti I agree!

In West and north part of Europe, today's date is written like; 2009-11-05 (we have passed to Thursday already)

In my work for General Motors, I had to type it in the US style, and it took me time to accept it, today's date should be; 11/05/2009

Why is it so different?

=== Original Message === I have many ways to read aloud the year number, depending on the context.

When writing, I insist on writing the year with 4 digits. When I see a number series like 04-02-11 on a product of unknown origin, I do not have any idea which one is a year, a month, or a day.

By the way, nice to be here in this group! Tank you!

^_^ In my work for General Motors, I had to type it in the US style, and it took me time to accept it, today's date should be; 11/05/2009

^_^ Why is it so different?

Possibly because when us gringos are asked "What day is it?" we're more prone to say "November 11, 2009" than "2009, November 11."

Then there's a few of us who say "Thursday."

One thing that makes me pause is here in the US, we're more likely to write 9:05 p.m. than 9,05 p.m. with the exception of those in the US military for which it's 2105 hours.