Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again?

MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• mcqtom@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Nah, I couldn’t even bring myself to say “twenty” something until 2013. Before that it was all like “two thousand and five”.

  Still saying the twenty part. Not sure when that can fall away. Since I was around for the nineteens, maybe I’ll never stop.

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  • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Did you ever say ninety hundred? For example ninety hundred and ninety nine.

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• swordgeek@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Most English-spealking people outside the US said ‘aught’ instead of ‘oh’, but definitely about 2005 the ‘two thousand and’ syntax evaporated.

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  • LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Our quirky university president tried very hard to make “aughty-aught” happen for 2000. It did not catch on.

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  • porcoesphino@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think Australian’s usually say “oh”. Signed an Aussie that’s spent enough time abroad to confuse himself on what they actually say

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• db2@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Time to ruin your day. They’ve been calling that time period the “aughties”.

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  • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Time to ruin your day…

    The words naughties and aughties are interchangeable and we have been calling them that since 2000.

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