Comment on The 1900s

TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Early 2000’s doesn’t sound odd at all though.

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  • Bubs12@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Early second millennium CE

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    • apostrofail@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      the 2000s* decade

      early 2000s*

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  • apostrofail@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Early 2000s*

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• emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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