Re: The Glorantha Digest V7 #261

From: aelarsen_at_facstaff.wisc.edu
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 23:01:06 -0600


>From: "Loren Miller" <loren_at_ioxy.com>
>Subject: Happy New Year, New Decade, New Century, and Millenium
>
>Happy New Year, Decade, Century and Millenium
>
>On the tube, I've just watched the first sunrise of the year 2000 over
>Ayer's Rock accompanied by an oddly beautiful, or perhaps a beautifully odd,
>contemporary/traditional dance number. Now is a great time to wish all you
>Glorantha fans a happy new millenium, and let us hope that hero wars is the
>first hit game of the millenium.

        Thank you for the sentiment, but at the risk of being pedantic, the New Decade, Century, and Millenium will not in fact start until 2001, since decades, centuries, and millenia all start with on years ending in 1, not years ending in 0.

Andrew E. Larsen


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