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Poll #26869

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Say you got married on April 14, 2012. Does that make April 14, 2022 your...

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Tenth anniversary
14 (82.4%)

Ninth anniversary
3 (17.6%)

Something different, to be explained in the comments
0 (0.0%)

Say you got married on April 14, 2012. Does that make April 14, 2013 your...

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First anniversary
17 (100.0%)

Second anniversary
0 (0.0%)

Something different, to be explained in the comments
0 (0.0%)

If your answer to #1 is "tenth" and your answer to #2 is "first," then where did the extra year go?

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ALIENS
9 (60.0%)

I will check this tickybox then explain my stance at length in the comments
1 (6.7%)

I'd...never thought of it like that
2 (13.3%)

It seems obvious that the first year is the first, but also that celebrating the tenth anniversary after eleven years of marriage also sounds rather odd
1 (6.7%)

ALIENS
12 (80.0%)

In other words

myrialux and I been married ten years now which makes this either our ninth or tenth anniversary, depending on how you count that. Given that the "modern" gift suggestion for 10 is diamonds, I am not opposed to celebrating my tenth anniversary twice.

edit: yes I'm aware the math makes it work out as the 10th anniversary, this was the result of a half-asleep argument this morning and I can't be bothered to take the poll down. :D

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I'm confused. Fencepost problems can be troublesome, but in this case the first event is in a different category.
4/14/2012 Wedding
4/14/2013 First Anniversary
4/14/2014 Second Anniversary
4/14/2015 Third Anniversary
4/14/2016 Fourth Anniversary
4/14/2017 Fifth Anniversary
4/14/2018 Sixth Anniversary
4/14/2019 Seventh Anniversary
4/13/2020 Eighth Anniversary
4/14/2021 Ninth Anniversary
4/14/2022 Tenth Anniversary

well SOMEBODY who is NOT ME is convinced this is our ninth anniversary for SOME REASON

(edit: this is not a serious argument, it's a half-asleep wrangling this morning XD)

Edited 2022-04-14 14:50 (UTC)

I totally understand. I made the list because the first time through I confused myself. I'm blaming the pressure change migraine.

I think when I try to logic my way through it, I get 9 but when I use math I get 10. Couldn't tell you why, other than I'm not great at logic. XD

Oh, thank God, I counted it on my fingers twice and wondered where I'd messed up.

We have multiple anniversaries because we never thought we'd be able to get married and then we eloped and then we had a friends & family wedding, so our anniversaries this year go, eg:
27th first anniversary
18th second anniversary
17th third anniversary

So when I see "first anniversary" or something like that, I always have to stop and think, "Oh, no, that means 1-year anniversary."

Technically we got married on Dec 11, 2021 because we bought the house that year and it made our taxes slightly easier. We had the wedding in April. XD

ALIENS!

(Or, as I said when talking about BCE -> CE to a guy at work, THERE WAS NO YEAR ZERO)