Re: Two Thousand and Eight

danny burstein <dannyb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>In <482C63FB.899F69D3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> "Bill Bonde { ''the oblique allusion
in lieu of the frontal attack'')"   <tributyltinpaint@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
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>>General Specific wrote:
>>> 
>>> At the turn of the century there was much speculation as to how we
>>> would reference the years.  My 9-Year-Old son just said two thousand
>>> and seven referring to last year.
>>> 
>>> Is that it?  Did we miss the op****tunity to say "aught-five"?
>>>
>>The coolest way to say it is "Two K plus eight"
>
>And the super duper k3wl way is "Two K minus 40".

Wouldn't that be "two kibi minus forty"?  You've got to be careful
around naturally disambiguated numbers.
-- 
Tomorrow is today already.
Greg Goss, 1989-01-27