ThomasM
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Well, since Richard feels the point is so important that it is worth repeating
in a new thread, I suppose I should withdraw both my own earlier new year and new decade wishes, since he is right, of course, in his specific context of a "decade" based on the Christian calendar and when that calendar "starts" and how it is counted.
Why withdraw happy new year as well? Since I prefer my good thoughts and wishes to others be unattached to parochial religious underpinnings, and to apply to all people everywhere, of all ethnic backgrounds and philosophical and religious beliefs, I suppose I should restrict myself to cosmological phenomena, and thus limit my new years wishes to Feb. 14 of this year, which applies to all people everywhere (adjusted for locale, of course...)
Of course, I feel sorry for those who think in sociological terms ("the 60's" not being the dates bounded by the Christian year numbers 1960 through 1969, but rather a cultural context which, for the US, roughly started in 1963 and ended in the early 1970's) or those who dare to mean that a decade is delineated by the tens unit digit, hence "new decade 2010" starts 2010 and ends 2019.
How dare they!
Happy thoughts and wishes to all, just because...
TM
Reminder: 2010 is not the beginning of a new decade, 2011 is
Yes as 2000 was the last year of the previous millenium...
Yes Richard
Well, since Richard feels the point is so important that it is worth repeating
Hi Thomas & Happy New Year!
