I know!! It surprised me a lot as well, and it was thanks to Rob that I realised all the mistakes I had made!Daisy wrote:Thanks for correcting it Maria Esther. I guessed the first typo but "Is Bush" really had me puzzling!
HAPPY NEW YEAR, 2018
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"All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."
(все, что я понимаю, я понимаю только потому, что люблю)
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(все, что я понимаю, я понимаю только потому, что люблю)
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Idiot.
Anyways, a Very Happy New Year to all my fellow forumites and I hope you have an absolutely great year!
I've been to Vienna but we didn't see any concerts.
Anyways, a Very Happy New Year to all my fellow forumites and I hope you have an absolutely great year!
I've been to Vienna but we didn't see any concerts.
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Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR, 2018
That's confused me! I thought this millennium runs from 2001 to 3100...IceMaiden wrote: Here's something I heard and thought it a neat little fact:
At midnight last night every single adult on the planet will have been born in the last millenium and every child born in this one.
Happy New Year, y'all.
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Now I'm confused! How does 3100 come into it?! Mind you, I never understood the idea that the new millennium started in 2001. For me it definitely started in 2000.Moonraker wrote:That's confused me! I thought this millenium runs from 2001 to 3100...
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hearts mad delight,
Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
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hearts mad delight,
Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
(E. Blyton, Sunday Times, 1951)
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Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR, 2018
No it didn't — because the "AD" calendar started with the year 1, not the year 0. So as the year 2 started, there had been one year of that century, and so on. So it wasn't until the year 2000 finished — i.e. as we changed to 2001 — that there had actually been 2000 years, supposedly, since the birth of Jesus.Rob Houghton wrote: Mind you, I never understood the idea that the new millennium started in 2001. For me it definitely started in 2000.
(I say "supposedly" because scholars figured out a long time ago that the Christian calendar is out by several years — as far as I remember, it's because Herod the Great, who plays a (nasty) role in the Christmas story, died in what we now call the year 4 BC, so Jesus must have been born before that. But never mind. )
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It was a nuisance. An adventure was one thing - but an adventure without anything to eat was quite another thing. That wouldn't do at all. (The Valley of Adventure)
It was a nuisance. An adventure was one thing - but an adventure without anything to eat was quite another thing. That wouldn't do at all. (The Valley of Adventure)
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My mistake! It ends in 3000, Rob.Rob Houghton wrote:Now I'm confused! How does 3100 come into it?!Moonraker wrote: That's confused me! I thought this millenium runs from 2001 to 3100...
I still don't understand IceMaiden's comment...
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Ah! Now I'm less confused!
I do understand the fact that there was no 'year zero'...but surely there was, if we are calculating it (supposedly) from the birth of Christ...as everyone has a 'year zero' before they become one...so he was actually born in 'year zero' by my reckoning!
Anyway...practically the whole world celebrated the new millennium at midnight 1999/2000, whether its right or wrong! I know there were a lot of arguments against it at the time though.
I do understand the fact that there was no 'year zero'...but surely there was, if we are calculating it (supposedly) from the birth of Christ...as everyone has a 'year zero' before they become one...so he was actually born in 'year zero' by my reckoning!
Anyway...practically the whole world celebrated the new millennium at midnight 1999/2000, whether its right or wrong! I know there were a lot of arguments against it at the time though.
'Oh voice of Spring of Youth
hearts mad delight,
Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
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hearts mad delight,
Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
(E. Blyton, Sunday Times, 1951)
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Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR, 2018
No. Christ was (allegedly, and certainly as a starter for our yearly system) born in 1AD - anno Domini translates as "in the year of our Lord", not one year later! The year before his birth was 1BC.Rob Houghton wrote:
I do understand the fact that there was no 'year zero'...but surely there was, if we are calculating it (supposedly) from the birth of Christ...as everyone has a 'year zero' before they become one...so he was actually born in 'year zero' by my reckoning!
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Ah...okay...the light is slowly dawning!
'Oh voice of Spring of Youth
hearts mad delight,
Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
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hearts mad delight,
Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
(E. Blyton, Sunday Times, 1951)
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If I've got it right, it's because everybody 18 or over born on or before 11:59pm on Dec 13 1999 is an adult. Anybody born after 12:00am on Jan 1 2000 is going to be a child. Even if they turned 18 at midnight Sunday they would still have been born within the new millenium. That's how it was explained to me anyway .Moonraker wrote:My mistake! It ends in 3000, Rob.Rob Houghton wrote:Now I'm confused! How does 3100 come into it?!Moonraker wrote: That's confused me! I thought this millenium runs from 2001 to 3100...
I still don't understand IceMaiden's comment...
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Except that won't be true until 1 Jan 2019, when it actually IS 18 years after the start of the new millennium.IceMaiden wrote: If I've got it right, it's because everybody 18 or over born on or before 11:59pm on Dec 13 1999 is an adult. Anybody born after 12:00am on Jan 1 2000 is going to be a child. Even if they turned 18 at midnight Sunday they would still have been born within the new millenium. That's how it was explained to me anyway .
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The Romans didn't know the number zero, it was introduced by arabs after they had aquired it from the Indians (if I remember correctly) in Europe.Rob Houghton wrote:Ah...okay...the light is slowly dawning!
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Does it really matter whether the new millennium started in 2000 or 2001? You all just ruined the effect of Ice Maiden's Grand Realization.
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Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR, 2018
It only matters if getting things correct matter to you. Incidentally, millennium contains a double-n. (Thanks to Rob for being gracious enough not to point out my initial mistake - now corrected! )Darrell71 wrote:Does it really matter whether the new millenium started in 2000 or 2001? You all just ruined the effect of Ice Maiden's Grand Realization.
Thanks for the explanation, IceMaiden, the light is slowly dawning for me, too! . I would never have worked that out - even if I left it year!
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I only spelled it correctly because with one 'm' the word was underlined in red when I typed it, so I right-clicked on it and up popped the correct spelling!Moonraker wrote: Incidentally, millennium contains a double-n. (Thanks to Rob for being gracious enough not to point out my initial mistake - now corrected! )
I'm not one of the best spellers, and rely on spell-check way too often!
'Oh voice of Spring of Youth
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Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
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hearts mad delight,
Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
(E. Blyton, Sunday Times, 1951)
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