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- From: froud@SunLab41.sx.ac.uk (Froud D D M)
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- Subject: Re: 29 Feb 2000?
- Message-ID: <FROUD.92Nov19210625@SunLab41.sx.ac.uk>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 21:06:25 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.095709.13507@infodev.cam.ac.uk> gdb15@grebe.cl.cam.ac.uk (Guy Barry) writes:
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- > Completely ambiguous! "Twenty one" is short for 1921 or 2021 -- it can't
- >be used for 2001 as well. (And "Twenty One -- A Space Odyssey" just
- >doesn't have the right ring to it...)
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- Yes, but in the year 2001...when someone says "Twenty one" what do you think
- they will mean? It's not likely that they'll mean 1921 or 2021 will they!
- It's a huge gap of 20/80 years!
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