• Boozilla@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I went to public school in the 80s and every classroom had a very large analog clock on the wall. Even back then, it mildly annoyed me when teachers and other adults would say “half past” and so on. It always sounded archaic to my ears, even 40+ years ago.

    I also get annoyed when people say “two thousand and twenty-four” for the year. Just say “twenty twenty-four”. We didn’t say “one thousand nine-hundred and eighty-four” back in the day, we said “nineteen eighty-four”.

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      8 months ago

      There was a solid decade where the pattern broke, and so e people didn’t get back into it.

      Two thousand, two thousand one etc don’t really work as “twenty oh-one”, etc.

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      8 months ago

      I was taught in the '80s that you shouldn’t use ‘and’ in a number that isn’t followed by a decimal portion (e.g. 23 and 4 hundredths). I’ve seen various back-and-forth on that topic over the years.

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      8 months ago

      It goes

      • nineteen ninety-eight
      • nineteen ninety-nine
      • two thousand
      • two thousand one
      • two thousand two
      • two thousand nine
      • twenty ten
      • twenty eleven
      • etc
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      8 months ago

      This is literally the first time I’ve ever heard the term “analog clock”.

      Also, the title of the book (and film) is not 1984. It’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.

      But I’m not a boomer, I’m genx, so whatever. I’m outta heeeere… 😎