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post #61 of 102
1/24/09 at 2:32pm

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post #62 of 102
1/24/09 at 2:47pm
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Maybe the decade will be known as the “grammatically correct 00s”
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post #63 of 102
1/24/09 at 3:36pm

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Where's your punctuation, Dave?
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post #64 of 102
1/24/09 at 7:02pm
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I was just happy to spell "grammatically" correctly.

Besides that, in my last post, does the period go inside the quotations, or outside?
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post #65 of 102
1/24/09 at 7:50pm

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Inside.
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post #66 of 102
1/24/09 at 8:16pm

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So he should have said:
I was just happy to spell "grammatically." correctly

???
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post #67 of 102
1/24/09 at 9:17pm

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The "punctuation marks always being inside the quotation marks" rule is not intuitive (or, maybe, logical), but hard and fast nevertheless. I tried to fight it for years, but finally got sick of being corrected.
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post #68 of 102
1/24/09 at 10:05pm

Re: What is this decade called?

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Originally Posted by Mike Frezon
The "punctuation marks always being inside the quotation marks" rule is not intuitive (or, maybe, logical), but hard and fast nevertheless. I tried to fight it for years, but finally got sick of being corrected.

Mike, thats a beautiful job of punctuation. Course i dont have a clue if its right!

Whats this thread about again?

To misquote Risky Business, "if you cant spell it, you cant say it."

So, the moral of the story is...we dont care what this decade is, cause we cant spell for ****!
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post #69 of 102
1/25/09 at 5:08am

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Originally Posted by Mark Hastings
So he should have said:
I was just happy to spell "grammatically." correctly

???

No. I was referring to his sentence in post #62. The rule applies when the quotation comes at the end of the sentence. The only exception being when the last item enclosed in quotation marks (at the end of a sentence) is just a number or a single letter, in which case the period goes outside the quotation marks.

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Originally Posted by Mike Frezon
The "punctuation marks always being inside the quotation marks" rule is not intuitive (or, maybe, logical), but hard and fast nevertheless.

You're right. For periods and commas it is not very intuitive at all. For question marks and exclamation points it is a different set of rules, though. If it is part of the quotation, the question mark or exclamation point goes inside of the quotation marks. If the question mark or exclamation point applies to the sentence as a whole, but not the quote, it goes outside of the quotation marks.

The Brits, however, make it all easy and apply the "logical" rule to periods and commas in addition to exclamation points and question marks.

I hate typing long posts in threads like this. You just know it is going to get picked apart grammatically. I feel like I just painted a big target on my chest.
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post #70 of 102
1/25/09 at 8:39am

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Originally Posted by Bryan X
No. I was referring to his sentence in post #62. The rule applies when the quotation comes at the end of the sentence. The only exception being when the last item enclosed in quotation marks (at the end of a sentence) is just a number or a single letter, in which case the period goes outside the quotation marks.
I probably should have put a smiley when I wrote: I was just happy to spell "grammatically." correctly

I meant it as a joke.
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post #71 of 102
1/25/09 at 9:19am

Re: What is this decade called?

the tweens
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post #72 of 102
1/27/09 at 8:26am

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I've been using "the twenty-ohs". Say it a few times; it has a ring to it and makes sense.

If 1809 is pronounced "Eighteen-oh-nine", and 1909 is pronounced "Nineteen-oh-nine" then shouldn't 2009 be pronounced "Twenty-oh-nine"? After all "twenty" is the next number in the series "Seventeen, eighteen, nineteen..."

I think because we had been looking forward in time to "The Year 2000" for so long, we couldn't quite pry ourselves away from pronouncing succeeding years as "two thousand one, two thousand two," etc. But really if we'd been following consistent logic from prior centuries, it should have been pronounced "twenty-oh-one, twenty-oh-two", etc.

Therefore it would make sense to refer to this decade as the "twenty-ohs".

This term also distinguishes itself from "twenty-hundreds" which could be construed as meaning the years 2000-2099.
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post #73 of 102
1/27/09 at 3:04pm

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If 1809 is pronounced "Eighteen-oh-nine", and 1909 is pronounced "Nineteen-oh-nine" then shouldn't 2009 be pronounced "Twenty-oh-nine"? After all "twenty" is the next number in the series "Seventeen, eighteen, nineteen..."

Then 2001: A Space Odyssey would be pronounced Twenty-oh-one: A Space Odyssey.
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post #74 of 102
1/27/09 at 5:53pm

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Originally Posted by Kevin Hewell
Then 2001: A Space Odyssey would be pronounced Twenty-oh-one: A Space Odyssey.

I promise to say it that way from now on.
Bob's post was very persuasive.
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post #75 of 102
12/26/09 at 4:23pm
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Well it is that time of year again to bring this up. There have been lots of ideas but, with only a few days left to the decade, has anything stuck?
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post #76 of 102
12/26/09 at 5:44pm
The Teens sounds ok (though eleven and twelves are only honorary teens).
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post #77 of 102
12/26/09 at 6:05pm
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post #78 of 102
12/26/09 at 9:26pm
I'd be content just to label the decade that's ending as "the decade of suck". 
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post #79 of 102
12/29/09 at 8:25am
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Originally Posted by Joseph J.D View Post

I'd be content just to label the decade that's ending as "the decade of suck". 

I'll beg to differ. I got my Ph.D., a job, a car, a house, and a wife this decade. It's been pretty good overall. :) But I hope D. Robbins got the name figured out, he's only got two days left!
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post #80 of 102
12/29/09 at 8:58am
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I like the sound of the double "OOs" It sounds James Bond-ish. I think in the end the media will eventually name it and that will stick. Have you heard anything yet? Here is what Wiki says and they do not sound so sure:

"Any decade is known by the term most commonly used. This decade will be known as the 2000's (as in 'two thousand nine'). This can change over time - in twenty years who knows what it will be referred as. Back in the early 1900's, the first decade was known as the 'aughts' (as in 'aught oh nine')."

So I guess we will be saying "Back in the two thousands" when we talk about this decade.

So anyway, the "two thousands" were good to me also. No major catastrophes, My children are approaching their late teens and all is well. My wife got her RN certification, we built our dream house (or as close as we can afford). Both my mother and brother moved out of NJ and live up the street now. I have been blessed to keep the same job for the longest that I ever have had one - 8 years. Looking back, I can not think of anything major that went wrong.
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post #81 of 102
12/29/09 at 9:22am
"Double Ooze"?
I guess many would agree with that assessment.
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post #82 of 102
12/29/09 at 10:30am
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post #83 of 102
12/30/09 at 8:40am
I personally had a great decade: bought a house, became a father (twice), and got a better paying job.  Pop-culturally, for me this decade has been dominated by the internet and home theater.  Music has suffered, it's much less engaging to me than it was before (music from the 60's-90's is still high on my playlist).  Perhaps I'm just getting old. 
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post #84 of 102
12/30/09 at 4:52pm
I don't know what this decade is called, but I do know it has another year left in it.
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post #85 of 102
12/30/09 at 5:49pm
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I think that reading back to post #42 of this thread, I would disagree. As stated 1930 is not part of the "roaring 20s" just as the year 2000 was not part of the 90s. So 2010 is not part of the 2000s
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post #86 of 102
12/30/09 at 9:33pm
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Originally Posted by Chris Lockwood View Post

I don't know what this decade is called, but I do know it has another year left in it.
Ahh, you're one of those people.

I gave up the fight Dec 31, 1999.
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post #87 of 102
12/31/09 at 9:28am

While it is clear, for example, that the 20th Century ended on December 31, 2000.  I think what is being said here is entirely different.  Certainly, the 201st decade will not end until December 31, 2010, but that's different than referring to an arbitrary 10 years and calling that decade "whatever".  A decade is 10 years, period.  So it is entirely correct to refer to 2000 through 2009 as the "two thousands" or 1980 through 1989 as the "80s".  But it would certainly be just as incorrect to claim that the 201st decade ends tomorrow.

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post #88 of 102
12/31/09 at 11:55am
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I guess I thought that the base ten numbering system was 0-9 not 1-10. So therefore the first decade would have been year 0, day 0, hour 0, minute 0, second 0, and then ended on year 9, day 365, hour 23, minute 59, second 59. To include the full year 10 would actually be almost 11 full years. And thus the 2000s work the same ending in year 2009, day 365, hour 23, minute 59, second 59 = 10 full years.
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post #89 of 102
12/31/09 at 12:01pm
But Dave, there was no year zero!  If there was, you would be correct.  So the first decade runs from year 1 through year 10.  The second decade runs from year 11 through year 20.  And so on.  If you follow it out, the 201st decade runs from year 2001 through 2010.

Think of your example.  There is no 0 year, 0 day, 0 hour, 0 second.  If there was a 0 hour, for example, there should be one EVERY DAY.  But there isn't!  There are 24 hours in a day.  We count those hours from 1 through 24, not 0 through 23.  Same with years (days and seconds too).  The first year was year 1 AD, not year 0.
Edited by Bryan X - 12/31/09 at 12:12pm
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post #90 of 102
12/31/09 at 12:21pm
Except military time, which is 0:00 through 23:59. 
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