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HillRatch t1_iwzwhwf wrote

If you care to update the speech to fit the current year, it would be "Seven score and nineteen years ago". Next year it'll just be 8 score!

EDIT: It was rightly pointed out that this is wrong! Ought to be 12 score and 6 years, per /u/the_full_effect below.

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the_full_effect t1_ix0b5ny wrote

It should be “12 score and 6 years ago” to fit the current year. The speech is referring to 1776 so you have to count from there

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HillRatch t1_ix0mjkm wrote

Yep, my mistake. I was so proud of myself for knowing how numbers work that I forgot how numbers work.

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