Most ridiculous letter to the editor ever?

[abcdefz]

Much ado about common practice

I am mildly irritated by those who pronounce the year as "two thousand eight." I'll bet not one of these people said "one thousand
nine hundred ninety-nine." So, why the grammatical schism? What did they say at the turn of the last millennium?

Ed Jacklitch
San Jose



What the fuck?

First, what would you have us say, Ed? "Twenty zero eight"?

Second, why the fuck would a semi-major newspaper even bother running this? :confused:

[ScarySquirrel]

I actually heard a DJ on the radio say "twenty oh eight." It was kind of weird and cool at the same time. Maybe I'll start doing that...

[Rock]

Twenny oh eight

[QueenAdrock]

Yeah, that's stupid to be mad over. I can't read my parents' hometown newspaper any more because it's full of idiot rednecks who mix politics with racism and find a computer to type out their thoughts to send to the editor. Blech. (n)

[abcdefz]

I can't go with the "oh eight" because it was strongly drummed into me that "it's not an 'oh,' it's a 'zero.'"

[jabumbo]

at the turn of the last millennium, they probably hung people like him

[abcdefz]

The last lynching in San Jose was in 1933, actually. Not so long ago at all.

I'm in that park pretty much every day.

[Kid Presentable]

^^ Lucky

[milleson]

Twenty aught eight.

[marsdaddy]

Just aught eight should do...

...unless you're Rip Van Winkle?!

[Bob]

i just call it "tha 8"

[Otis Driftwood]

In the 70s some redneck fuck wrote a letter to Marvel's Black Panther comic complaining about the fact that the main character was, in his words, a jungle monkey....

[Lex Diamonds]

The year is called "Two thousand and eight". While pedantic at best, I think it's a valid observation.

[camo]

Y2K(ver)8

[abcdefz]

MMVIII.

[Lex Diamonds]

Gregorian calendar
2008
MMVIII

Ab urbe condita
2761

Armenian calendar
1457
ԹՎ ՌՆԾԷ

Bahá'í calendar
164 – 165

Berber calendar
2958

Buddhist calendar
2552

Burmese calendar
1370

Chinese calendar
4644/4704-11-23
— to —
4645/4705-12-5

Coptic calendar
1724 – 1725

Ethiopian calendar
2000 – 2001

Hebrew calendar
5768 – 5769

Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat 2063 – 2064
- Shaka Samvat 1930 – 1931
- Kali Yuga 5109 – 5110

Holocene calendar
12008

Iranian calendar
1386 – 1387

Islamic calendar
1428 – 1430

Japanese calendar
Heisei 20
- Imperial Year Kōki 2668

Korean calendar
4341

Thai solar calendar
2551

[abcdefz]

Now you're just being difficult.

[ms.peachy]

I think sometimes newspapers will run little things like this just for shits and giggles.

[abcdefz]

I think so, too.

Our newspaper is pretty liberally biased, and on the rare occasions that it prints a conservative-view letter to the editor, it's something
so ridiculously idiotic it's almost defamatory. Your "shits and giggles" theory is pretty much the only reason I can think of for selecting
what they do sometimes.

[Dorothy Wood]

I don't mind "twenty oh eight".

lol @ tha 8


I'm pretty sure that people started saying "two thousand..." because of the sheer novelty of the number. I bet it'll switch as we go up and get used to it.

[Jitters]

I say two thousand and eight.... I don't really see what's wrong with that.

I've never heard anyone say anything different.

[adam_f]

I call 2008 the year Bob gets laid...or at least meets a boob.

[Bob]

I call 2008 the year Bob gets laid...or at least meets a boob.

hey i touched a boob once

i dont wanna talk about it though

[Jitters]

Most boob encounters are pretty traumatic. We understand.

[hardnox71]

hey i touched a boob once

i dont wanna talk about it though

Don't wanna talk about it or can't talk about it due to a judge's gag order?

Jesus, Bob, no means no!!














:D

[b-grrrlie]

Two thousand eight it is.
I hate it when here in Sweden they call thousands 10s of hundreds, like this year would be twenty hundred eight.

[abcdefz]

Double thousand four.

[HEIRESS]

my mom writes the best letters to the editor ever. its amazing how they butcher then before printing too. sure, they tell you that they have the right to edit, bit good god.

I should collect all of her letters that have been published over the years.

as someone who is housebound alot, she seems to have more time than most to write out such letters when the topic moves her.

[abcdefz]

I've sort of figured out how to write to the Merc and get published, but I never really get to say exactly what I want. So I have to pick
one simple, specific angle, get in and get out.

[Freebasser]

As Paddy rightly and Britishly pointed out, it should be Two Thousand AND Eight, just like the word 'colour' has a U in it and baseball is actually called rounders and should only be played by girls under the age of 12 who are trying to earn their "sports badge" at Girl Guides.

[abcdefz]

As Paddy rightly and Britishly pointed out, it should be Two Thousand AND Eight, just like the word 'colour' has a U in it and baseball is actually called rounders and should only be played by girls under the age of 12 who are trying to earn their "sports badge" at Girl Guides.



In math class, we learned that using the word "and" with numbers implies a decimal point.

So two thousand and eight = 2000.8