Ya know, if we put the 1st day of our calender at something rational, like say the day we landed on the Moon instead of the (not actual) birthday of a cult leader who may or may not have even actually existed, we wouldn't be having this problem.
I don't think I could use "Five-Thousand Two Hundred and Eighty" as a handle, TVDinner. Too long. And it certainly wouldn't let me use "5280" when I first started using it about a million years ago (I haven't tried since).
"Twenty-eleven" just doesn't sound right to me. I think it's just too irregular to that style of reading numbers. I think I'm expecting either a digit 1-9 (as in "twenty-one-eleven" for 2111), or another multiple of ten (as in "twenty-ten" for 2010 or "twenty-thirty-five" for 2035), not a single word representing a two-digit number that forces me to add three digits onto the end.
On the other hand, I can get behind "twenty-twelve" somehow. I guess it's the repetition.
Some of us were going to call this current year βtwo-thousand ten,β and some of us were going to call it βtwenty ten.β For those going with the former, it was a mere continuation of the format we had used for the past decade. And those people were wrong.
If that were true, then next next year would be twenty-twelve, and the magnetic poles would flip.
On the other hand, I can get behind "twenty-twelve" somehow. I guess it's the repetition.
Is there anyone that hasn't?
I like this person.
Party over
Oops
Out of time
But tonite I'm gonna party like it's 1799!
...maybe that's why I have no friends. :(