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Posted at: 11/26/2009 5:24 AM | WHEC.com How do you say 2010: Two-thousand-Ten? Twenty-Ten?
"I'm going with two-thousand-ten," said Carmine Pelino, the owner of Sweet Dawn restaurant. "Twenty-ten!" announces Michelle Diaz. "I think I'm going with 'twenty-ten," Reggie Stamps added. "Two-thousand-ten," says John Carroll. "And there shouldn't be anymore conversation about it!" "I say 'two-thousand-ten," says Alvin Clark with Upscale Superior Shoe Shine. "Twenty-ten? Sounds kind of uppity to me." Wow! Some look to pop culture for guidance on the issue. Afterall, the famous movie was "2001 (two-thousand-one): A Space Odyssey. Not "2001 (twenty-oh-one): A Space Odyssey". But on the other hand, the famous George Orwell novel is "1984" (nineteen-eighty-four), not "one-thousand-nine-hundred-and eighty-four". It's a real head-scratcher that seems to get people pretty worked up, so we went to an expert to settle the issue. "It really comes down to personal preference," says Dr. Carlnita Greene, a rhetorician at Nazareth College. A rhetorician is an expert in language and shared cultural meanings in words and pronunciations. "There really is no right or wrong answer." So why is there so much disagreement? Click on the video player on the right to see why this issue has people choosing sides in Rochester.
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Rochester-- It's yet another debate over everyday language and, so far, there is no clear consensus.