In The Year ...

So what are we going to do now?

Twenty-Ten?

Two-Thousand-Ten?

Oh-Ten?

The answer for me is in the answer to this question: What are we going to do for the next 1,000 years?

Seriously, we've got to think ahead. I'm sure they'll look back at this little speck of a decade and say, "Did they really think we were going to call it the year Two-Thousand-One-Hundred-And-Seventy-Three?"

And "Oh-10?" Let's look beyond ourselves here. There are entire centuries ahead of us.

In fact, by the time the 2100s make their presence known, it'll just be a matter of "back in '73."

So -- for me -- "Twenty-Ten" it is.

And who said you need those images of the great, expanding universe to make you feel insignificant?

That's what mathematical linguistic semantics are for.