• SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    People already refer to the 2010s as “the tens” so I imagine sometime between 2030 and 2035 people will start calling the 2020s “the twenties”

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    9 hours ago

    I guess we could do it once nobody born in the 20s is alive anymore. There are people alive as old as 117, although obviously this is an outlier. I wonder what % of people born prior to 1930 are still alive?

  • davel@lemmy.ml
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    21 hours ago

    People have started calling the 20th century the “nineteen hundreds,” and I’m still not okay with it.

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    19 hours ago

    Meh, I’ll start with the '30s. I feel we need a little more buffer from the late 1900s.

    I still keep forgetting it’s a quarter of the way into the 21st century already. I keep thinking it’s still like 2002 or something. I think we need to get away from all the 2’s in the dates before I’ll start to recognize the new century as independent from the 20th century.