Math is hard. Apparently

[madbaker]

2010 is the start of a new year. It is not the start of a new decade. Nor was 2000 the start of a new millennium. You start a new cycle with year 1, not year 0.

To pre-empt the "If that's how people use it, it's correct" argument, I offer this riddle:

Q: "How many legs does a dog have if you call a tail a leg?"
A: "Four. Calling a tail a leg does not make it one."

What I'm reading: Ken Scholes, Canticle

Comments

[fionnbharro.livejournal.com]

You don't play football, do you (I mean the 'American' kind -- not soccer)?

There's a fifty-yard line right smack-dab in the middle of the field, with a 49-yard line on either side.

Now; contrast this with Canadian Rules American Football.

See? See?!!?