VO-BB - 20 YEARS OLD!

todd ellis · Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 5:45 pm Post subject: how are you gonna say it!

i know - however the client wants it ...

BUT -- is it two thousand ten --- or twenty-ten?

or ... MMX
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Jeffrey Kafer · Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 6:02 pm Post subject:

Whichever pays more.
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JBarrett · Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 6:03 pm Post subject:

I've been a "two-thousand-ten" kind o' guy for many years, partly thanks to some wild teenage speculation (and amateur audio production) that a friend and I did many moons back. I doubt that I'll use "twenty-ten" much in the new year, partly because I didn't feel much compulsion to say "twenty-oh-nine" for the current one.
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Moe Egan · Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 6:07 pm Post subject:

Just got an email from a regular (MOH) client today- unless end client says otherwise- he wants it "2000-10"
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Frank F · Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 6:24 pm Post subject:

It's simple. Say "next year"and then in a few days say "this year".

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Deirdre · Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 6:40 pm Post subject:

I like 20-10.

I'm all done with the "two-thousand" crap.

The guys on The Now Show (BBC Radio 4) were calling the last 10 years "the naughties".
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Mike Harrison · Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 8:48 pm Post subject:

I'm one for continuity. And, as we hadn't been saying "one thousand nine hundred (and) ninety nine," I think 20-10 is the way to go, too.

However, if a paying client wants me to pronounce 'Raymond Luxury Yacht' as 'Throat Warbler Mangrove,' I'm happy to do it.

By the way... what's that, on the television?
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Bailey · Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 9:11 pm Post subject:

I like twenty-ten. It helps you get ready for the year 2525... if man is still alive, if woman can survive.
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Chrissy · Guest

20-10 is fine with me. If $$ is invovled then I aim to please. I'm not concerned about 2525 cause if I'm still around I probably won't know what day it is much less what year.

Jeffrey Kafer · Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 12:17 am Post subject:

Just don't say "the new decade" BECAUSE IT'S NOT!
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Philip Banks · Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 1:50 am Post subject:

Two zero one zero if it is a sequence.
Two thousand and ten if it's a year
Twenty ten if it's part of the number in a direct response TV commercial

Fur maw dee-tails call one eight hundred twen nee tin NOW and get yer free walrus polishing kit which we gaurantee will remove stains from any sea borne mammal.

Lee Gordon · Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 2:36 am Post subject:

I prefer two-thousand-ten. Oddly, I have no problem referring to the just-ending year as '09 (oh-nine) but think it sounds strange to call the upcoming year '10.
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CarynClark · Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 7:33 am Post subject:

Well, you could be like my husband... when writing out the date, he was writing 9... just nine... (or 8, 7... whatever the year was) for the year. No 09 for him. He thought the zero was unnecessary.

I prefer two thousand ten myself. Dunno why... I just do.
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Rob Ellis · M&M Joined: 01 Aug 2006 Posts: 2385 Location: Detroit

How about two oh one oh

Lance Blair · M&M Joined: 03 Jun 2007 Posts: 2281 Location: Atlanta

Back in the year Nineteen-Ten, scientists predicted that people in the future would also say "Twenty-Ten". Little did they know how sloppy the world would become in the following years.

I think Orwell wrote about this to a degree in One Thousand Nine Hundred Eighty and Four.

We've been down this rowt before. I'm just going to have a carmel and forget it.
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