{"id":1343,"date":"2012-01-10T00:03:44","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T22:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielebesana.com\/blog\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2012-01-10T00:03:44","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T22:03:44","slug":"two-thousand-twelve-ing-or-twenty-twelve-ing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielebesana.com\/blog\/life\/two-thousand-twelve-ing-or-twenty-twelve-ing","title":{"rendered":"Two-thousand-twelve-ing, or Twenty-Twelve-ing?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"welcome<\/a>While my friends and I repeated the celebration of the new year last Saturday, countdown included, the masses in New York City are confused about how to call it, this newborn 2012:<\/p>\n

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\nI suspect they must be confused since over a decade, when the year 2001 kicked in, but I didn\u00b4t even speak English back then, so I would not have understood either way.<\/p>\n

I would personally stick to twenty-twelve<\/strong>, because seems cool<\/em>\u00a0and after all, 13th years ago we were living year 1999 and I seriously doubt that when you read 1999 you\u00b4re reading \u00a8a thousand nine hundreds nineteen nine\u00a8<\/em>, no?<\/p>\n

And it\u00b4s encouraging to find out that someone already had this doubt last year, and promptly asked to the Yahoo! Answers community:<\/p>\n

How should 2011 be pronounced? two thousand eleven or twenty eleven?<\/a><\/h1>\n

The best answer, chosen by the confused that posted the question, shows that this debate was still considered a taboo less than 24 months ago, and taking position could have cost social problems in some parts of the World:<\/p>\n

\u00a8I pronounced 2010 as twenty ten all last year and people thought I was nuts.\u00a8<\/em><\/p>\n

Now things have changed and in 5th Avenue as well as The Village people are open to discuss about it and\u00a0comfortable\u00a0to express their opinion in front of the camera of a national TV channel.<\/p>\n

One of the my favorite quotes from\u00a0Mahatma Gandhi<\/strong><\/strong>\u00a0well explain this situation:\u00a0\u00a8First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win<\/em>\u00a8<\/strong> – the charismatic Indian leader said, maybe forecasting the massive growth of the IT customer care business in his country.<\/p>\n

So twenty-twelve<\/strong>\u00a0will be.<\/p>\n

But aren\u00b4t bloggers supposed to talk about new year resolutions<\/em>, spreading all over the blogosphere their wishes for change?<\/p>\n

Am I somehow different, not looking for changing my life, the pursuit of happiness, or at least have some personal growth here and there?<\/p>\n

The truth is quite frustrating, actually.
\nThe truth is that I made this blog, and started my personal blog personal challenge<\/a> to share my life happenings and my thoughts, but I\u00b4m not free to talk openly about my personal plans at the moment.<\/p>\n

Too many readers may find inspirations that I\u00b4m not ready to provide.
\nPlease keep thinking that for upcoming months I\u00b4ll be very busy with my knee, physiotherapy and lonely evenings in my apartment 63 steps up from the street.<\/p>\n

So, after thinking for days and days I decided to share what I will NOT<\/strong> do in 2012 (twenty-twelve, remember) instead of having a list of plans or resolutions.<\/p>\n

In 2012 I will:<\/p>\n