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They used the term "current year" because it can be repeated verbatim any year going back forever.
by blacksqr 4y ago
They used the term "current year" because it can be repeated verbatim any year going back forever.
- danans 4y agoThat's not an English idiom that I've ever heard or read before. The lack of a "the" before "current" suggests it's a translation from a language that does not make compulsory use of articles. Perhaps it's an idiom in that language.
- selimthegrim 4y agoBracketing current year would have made it a little more comprehensible
- danans 4y agoI agree. That would have changed the meaning completely.
- anon_123g987 4y agoI've only ever read this on Hacker News, in the form "Welcome to $current_year!", where $ is the scalar sigil in the Perl programming language, indicating that it's a variable, and should be substituted by the reader as necessary.
- zoklet-enjoyer 4y ago