Comments on: A little confusion about centuries

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:24:32 +0000

No problem, Zhayena.

By: zhayena

zhayena — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:05:18 +0000

Just dropping by to say that I didn’t mean to ping this post twice, – I had to split the Zha’vu’Keldi’en sites, so some pinging I never meant to happen did.

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By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:56:09 +0000

Joshua: My friend Chantal asked me that very question over Google Talk when she read my post. I told her that I have no idea, and I really don’t. Maybe it was that very discrepancy, “now we’re living in the 21st century”, that made me realize my blunder.

Awful, I know.

By: Joshua J. Slone

Joshua J. Slone — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:00:05 +0000

“How in the world did I read about medieval history for years, and not pick up on the fact that when an author was writing about, say, the 12th century, that all of the dates were 11-something?”

Forget historical texts for a moment. How did you not notice the discrepancy of it being the 20th century when you were living in the 1990s?

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:51:10 +0000

Tom: I must admit that I’m glad to know you’ve got the same problem. I also have to pause and think quite often, especially when it comes to BC years – the “going down” of the years rather than up just makes matters worse.

zhayena: “The 1300-years” sounds far simpler. I vote English adopt it forthwith.

And indeed, going from 1200-tallet, I know I’d end up with “12th century.”

By: zhayena

zhayena — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:41:11 +0000

I only get confused when reading English texts, we don’t use “12th century” in Norwegian, well not that often, we rather use something that can be translated to “the 1300-year(s)” (1300-tallet), meaning the years from 1300 to 1399.

And then it get way too easy to translate 12th century to our Norwegian 1200-tallet.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:28:05 +0000

Another brother with the same problem I see.

Though I learned this a number of years ago I still have a problem with it. When I hear or read “twelfth century” I still think 12XX and it requires some effort to remind myself of the actual meaning.

I also get messed up when I’m trying to talk or think about this concept in the BC years.

Sheesh.