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- Subject: Re: 29 Feb 2000?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.153940.2660@lsl.co.uk>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 14:39:40 GMT
- References: <6434@sersun1.essex.ac.uk> <722054722snz@mccomp.demon.co.uk><11581@scott.ed.ac <FROUD.92Nov19210625@SunLab41.sx.ac.uk>
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- In article <FROUD.92Nov19210625@SunLab41.sx.ac.uk>, froud@SunLab41.sx.ac.uk (Froud D D M) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov19.095709.13507@infodev.cam.ac.uk> gdb15@grebe.cl.cam.ac.uk (Guy Barry) writes:
- >
- >> Completely ambiguous! "Twenty one" is short for 1921 or 2021 -- it can't
- >>be used for 2001 as well. (And "Twenty One -- A Space Odyssey" just
- >>doesn't have the right ring to it...)
- >
- > Yes, but in the year 2001...when someone says "Twenty one" what do you think
- > they will mean? It's not likely that they'll mean 1921 or 2021 will they!
- > It's a huge gap of 20/80 years!
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- Ah yes, but what about when in say 2035 a copper stops a student and asks for
- his/her date of birth and they reply 21... do they mean 2001 or '21 (2021),
- so it will be a problem, but not for quite a while, easiest way out is 20-0-1
- and '21, 20-0-2 and '22 etc. or you could say 20-1, ie leave a pause in the
- way you say it, wouldn't work for people that speak quickly tho!
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- "para-phrasing an American's .sig"....
- For the record, I did not vote for Bill Clinton
- :-)
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