Happy 2010!

I don’t have much to say today. I just wanted to make a blog post with today’s date on it.

I’m not sure whether I’m going to call 2010 “twenty-ten” or “two thousand ten.” I prefer the former, but I have to get used to it. Of course, some people have their opinions.

And even if it doesn’t take hold next year, I think it will in the next couple of years. And I wonder: once people get used to saying “twenty-thirteen” and “twenty-twenty-one” and so on, will they start referring to the years of the decade just ended in the same way? Will they start referring to 2001 as “twenty-oh-one,” and so on? And when they watch news reports of people referring to it as “two thousand one,” will that sound quaint?

By the way, are we in the teens now? Or the tens? Or the tweens? I think we’re in the “twenty-tens” (2010s) but also in the teens.

See, everyone was so focused on the first decade of the millennium that they forgot to think about the second decade.

Anyway — happy 2010.