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From: David Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca>
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Subject: Re: no more primitive data types in Java (JDK 10+). What do you think?
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:08:08 -0400
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On 20/04/2012 12:02 PM, Peter Duniho wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:17:52 -0700, Lew wrote:
>> But it did, by popular acclaim. There is no "real" millennium other than the
>> day after whenever it was hardest to get New Year's Eve hotel reservations at
>> Times Square. [...]
>
> You would be correct, except you're not.  If I thought the people making
> the mistake I'm talking about actually understood the point you're making,
> and were just arbitrarily reassigning the term "millennium", you'd have a
> point.
>
> But they don't.  They are specifically looking at the count of years and
> falsely imagine that on Jan 1, 2000, two sets of 1000-year intervals have
> passed.

No, they're deciding that when the leading digit changes is more 
important than whether a year zero ever existed. Like Lew has been 
saying, *language* depends on the way the common people use words, not 
on what pedants think words ought to mean. I have often lamented when 
people "misuse" my favourite words, but I've become resigned in this 
area to masses winning out over the cognoscenti.