Doug McCorkle wrote:
>
> I hope everyone who's sick of this topic deleted this message without reading
> it. Obsessive pedant that I am, I can't resist sticking my oar in here...
Some people can grasp a concept easier from a diagram than from
a verbal argument:
Millenium (When Is It Anyway?)----BC>|<AD----100 years------>|
| |
Cardinal Numbers |.....|.....|.....|.....|.....|.....|.....|
(Measured time) -N -2 -1 0 +1 +2 +N +100
(Birthdays) | 1st 2nd Nth 100th
| | | | | | | |
Cardinal Numbers |.-2..|.-1..|.-0..|.+0..|.+1..|.+2..|.+99.|
(How old are you?) | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | |
Ordinal Numbers |.-3..|.-2..|.-1..|.+1..|.+2..|.+3..|+100.|
(What year is it?) | | | | | | | |
| | | | |
----BC>|<AD---First Century--->|
|1901.|1902.|.....|2000.|
|<----20th Century----->|
Cheers,
Joe
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