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RE: RE: *Millennium*



ja' tuv'el

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ja' charghwI'

[...]
> 
> By that logic, your first year begins when you are one year old. 
> So, I guess you must be born a year old. That, or the year 
> before your first birthday somehow didn't happen. It must be one 
> of those little warps in the space-time continuum that happens 
> so commonly in the Star Trek universe... 
> 
> charghwI'
> 
	Not true!  When a child is born, he's in his first year.  As soon as
he turns one, he's in his second year.  That's day 366, not day 365.  It's
the same thing exactly with Say'IluD's soldier example.  Soldier #1000 is
the last soldier in the *first* line, soldier #1001 is the first soldier in
the *second* line.  For 2000 to be the first year of the third millinium, we
would have needed to start our count at zero.  In fact there was no year
zero, 1 AD is preceeded by 1 BC.

	- tuv'el, HovQeD po'wI'Hom  >:-{)
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tuv'el, qatlho'. bIQIjchu'.

qen, tera' DIS pagh vIDel. vIcha'qa':

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ramvam lulopDI' Hoch, vItlhej. jIQIpbe'. *Christian* jIH. vaj *Gregorian*
'ISjaH vIlo'. vaj jIHvaD (HochHom qo' tayvaD je
[http://www.magnet.ch/serendipity/hermetic/cal_stud/newmill.htm yIlegh])
taghDI' jaj 2001-01-01, tagh *millennium* wejDIch. HovQed 'ISjaH *common
era* 'ISjaH ghap Dalo''a'. <HIja'> choja'chugh vaj <*millennium* wejDIch
yItIv> qaja'. <ghobe'> choja'chugh vaj <tera DIS chu' yItIv> qaja' neH.
bIQIpbe' 'e' vISovchu'. ghu' Dayajchu'. ghu' yajbe' HochHom 'ej HaStaDaq
cha'bogh De' luHar. QIpqu' jay'.

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I'm not stupid. I'll be partying along with the rest of the world tonight.
As a Christian, I use the Gregorian calendar. Thus, for me (and most of the
civilized world [follow the link]), the third millennium begins on
2001-01-01. Do you use the astronomical calendar or the common era calendar?
If you do, then "Happy Third Millennium", otherwise, "Happy New Year". I
know that you are not stupid and that you have a keen understanding of the
way calendars work. Most people don't and they just believe what they hear
on TV. THEY are morons.
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Say'IluD
vIt, batlh, yIn


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