Re: Two Thousand and Eight

In article <693ccqF2uett5U3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Greg Goss  <gossg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 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:
> >
> >>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.

When I turned 32, I wrote my friend and told him I'd say I was 0x20,
because that sounded better.  His wife didn't get it, but I'll cut her
some slack since she was a non-English-speaker.

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