To me, the most important question to answer as we enter this new decade is how we now refer to time. Do we say “two-thousand-ten” or “twenty-ten”?
I propose that we say “twenty-ten” and I have some reasons for doing so.
1. Consistency – that’s how we’ve been doing it. In the 1900′s we said “nineteen-ninety-nine” not “one-thousand-nine-hundred-ninety-nine”.
2. Efficiency – it takes less time to say “twenty” than it does to say “two thousand”. “Twenty” is a two-syllable word whereas “two thousand” is a three syllable compound word. I think that the aggregate time saving benefit of everyone saying “twenty” instead of “two thousand” is self-evident.
What do you think?
