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Dear Bothered -
You are not alone. I almost went insane in the year 1999 trying to make people understand that we were entering a new millineum in 2000. The new millineum started in 2001, but did anyone else care (oh, I know there were a few. There were even little mentions of it on the news.) Nonetheless, the governments of the world chose to inaccurately make a big deal of 2000. Yes, I get it that it was the first time in nearly a century that the first two numbers of a year would not be 19. And I understand how all the Y2K hype made it even more facinated. And then there was the song, Prince's "1999" to make the whole thing sexier. We both know, where there's a song - it's a lost cause.
So - those of us who love truth, accuracy, and argue semantics are few and greatly out-numbered by the mob, the crowd, the public, the people. We always have been - those of us who know it's just a windmill. But, I must admit even I love the romanticism of Quixote. So, we simply have to sit in our smug correctness, with our superior knowledge, while ginormous is added to Webster's. What else can we do. Fight everybody?
Stella ...
