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It seems awkward to me to refer to the previous century that way until you’re at least halfway through the next century.

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user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Early 2000’s doesn’t sound odd at all though.

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- Bubs12@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Because that’s referring the 2000’s decade. In terms of centuries, I would say we are still in the early 2000’s and that does feel odd to say.
  
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  - user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I rather meant how it sounds. It’s in the “hundreds”.
    
    Two thousands.
    Twenty hundreds.
    
    “Early twenty hundreds” does kind of make it sound like we live in 2224 instead while “early two thousands” sounds like 2002.
    
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    Bubs12@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Well you also wouldn’t say ten hundreds for the 1000’s. I think it’s just a quirk of the being the first century in a millennia.
    
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    Skydancer@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Early second millennium CE
    
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  - apostrofail@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    the 2000s* decade
    
    early 2000s*
    
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- apostrofail@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Early 2000s*
  
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emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I mean if your life started in 2005 and you didnt live through any of the 20th century, calling it the late 1900s seems totally reasonablr. You werent there when people were living through the “90s”, to you its just another bygone era that people speak about in waya you’ll never be able to relate to.

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