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So does a decade run from 00 - 09 or 01 - 10?
Are we at the end of the decade or is 2020 the end?
So does a decade run from 00 - 09 or 01 - 10?
Are we at the end of the decade or is 2020 the end?
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Re: Decade
Can we have a long argument about how we celebrated the new decade on the wrong day now, except for the really clever ones who celebrated it on the right day, on their own?
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Re: Decade
More importantly what are going to call it?
We were going great guns until the Nineties, we began to struggle a bit with the Noughties and now we are in 2019 and the whole preceding decade is is still a "TBC"; the Tennies? the Teenies?
Now in only a matter of weeks we are approaching the Twenties (?) and unless we all going to start wandering around like Peaky Blinder extras, doing the Charleston and reliving the Great Depression (all 3 eminently possible ATM) it's going to get very confusing.
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We were going great guns until the Nineties, we began to struggle a bit with the Noughties and now we are in 2019 and the whole preceding decade is is still a "TBC"; the Tennies? the Teenies?
Now in only a matter of weeks we are approaching the Twenties (?) and unless we all going to start wandering around like Peaky Blinder extras, doing the Charleston and reliving the Great Depression (all 3 eminently possible ATM) it's going to get very confusing.
Nevermind Brexit this is shirley the country's priority!
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I thought you already lived in Newcastle?Little waster wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2019 12:23 pm... unless we all going to start wandering around like Peaky Blinder extras, doing the Charleston and reliving the Great Depression (all 3 eminently possible ATM) it's going to get very confusing.
Just tell 'em I'm broke and don't come round here no more.
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Re: Decade
This is one of those occasions when science, maths and facts have to bow to common usage - as often happens with language use. It's not like anyone is harmed by celebrating the end of the decade at the end of the year ending in 9 as they can be by other misuse of data/scientific method. Otherwise there's the risk of ending up as a whiny pedant killjoy who doesn't get invited to any NYE parties anyway.
I'm happy to call it the Twenties. It's not like a lot of people who remember the last Twenties are still around to get confused. Or, more likely, the f.cked Decade.
I'm happy to call it the Twenties. It's not like a lot of people who remember the last Twenties are still around to get confused. Or, more likely, the f.cked Decade.
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That could certainly cause confusion with the one after that.
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Re: Decade
2020s already has associations, like 20/20 vision, so I'm happy with that, or "20s 2, just when you thought it was safe..."
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I imagine that in 1919, people 100 years older than us were saying that the 1920s couldn't possibly be called the twenties, because obviously the twenties were the 1820s.
They didn't have online forums to debate this in, though, so there's that.
They didn't have online forums to debate this in, though, so there's that.
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But there wre some very testy telegram exchanges though.
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Re: Decade
Depends on whether you are programmed in C, Python, Java etc. or Fortran.Gentleman Jim wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2019 12:01 pmOK
So does a decade run from 00 - 09 or 01 - 10?
Are we at the end of the decade or is 2020 the end?
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Heard you were calling 1930 the last year of the 20s stop Stop stopVertigowooyay wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2019 1:25 pmBut there wre some very testy telegram exchanges though.
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Re: Decade
Posh people had letters to the Times, the rest had the pub.
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When did Twenties ever mean anything other than 20-29?Tessa K wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2019 12:37 pmThis is one of those occasions when science, maths and facts have to bow to common usage - as often happens with language use. It's not like anyone is harmed by celebrating the end of the decade at the end of the year ending in 9 as they can be by other misuse of data/scientific method. Otherwise there's the risk of ending up as a whiny pedant killjoy who doesn't get invited to any NYE parties anyway.
I'm happy to call it the Twenties. It's not like a lot of people who remember the last Twenties are still around to get confused. Or, more likely, the f.cked Decade.
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It's not what period they cover, it's whether they should have the same name as the last lot.TimW wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2019 2:49 pmWhen did Twenties ever mean anything other than 20-29?Tessa K wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2019 12:37 pmThis is one of those occasions when science, maths and facts have to bow to common usage - as often happens with language use. It's not like anyone is harmed by celebrating the end of the decade at the end of the year ending in 9 as they can be by other misuse of data/scientific method. Otherwise there's the risk of ending up as a whiny pedant killjoy who doesn't get invited to any NYE parties anyway.
I'm happy to call it the Twenties. It's not like a lot of people who remember the last Twenties are still around to get confused. Or, more likely, the f.cked Decade.
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And the preceding one.GeenDienst wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2019 12:46 pmThat could certainly cause confusion with the one after that.
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What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us.
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Fine, but this bit seemed to imply that the period is contentious:
Re: Decade
After The Event.
Or Event: Right After.
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insignificant wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2019 12:58 pm2020s already has associations, like 20/20 vision, so I'm happy with that, or "20s 2, just when you thought it was safe..."
Mixing the two themes
20s 2, just when you thought it was safe: the Boris Years.
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Twenties Redux?
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Twenties reflux?
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Or "The Time of Darkness when a Shadow fell across the Land"?
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Re: Decade
Has somebody already said "twunties"?
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Re: Decade
It's all down to whether there was a year '0', isn't it? The general historical consensus is that we went from 1 BC to 1 AD; so logically the first decade would be from 1 AD to 10 AD. Therefore, the end of each decade is the end of the year ending with '0', not '9'. The centuries are the end of each year xx00, and the millenniums are the end of each year ending x000.Gentleman Jim wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2019 12:01 pmOK
So does a decade run from 00 - 09 or 01 - 10?
Are we at the end of the decade or is 2020 the end?
But no-one brings logic into this, so the social consensus is that we're 12 days from the end of the decade.
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Is the written historical record complete and accurate enough that we can count back every year to 1 AD and 1 BC with no breaks. Kind of like tree ring dating, but with written historical records across cultures?Martin_B wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2019 12:11 amIt's all down to whether there was a year '0', isn't it? The general historical consensus is that we went from 1 BC to 1 AD; so logically the first decade would be from 1 AD to 10 AD. Therefore, the end of each decade is the end of the year ending with '0', not '9'. The centuries are the end of each year xx00, and the millenniums are the end of each year ending x000.Gentleman Jim wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2019 12:01 pmOK
So does a decade run from 00 - 09 or 01 - 10?
Are we at the end of the decade or is 2020 the end?
But no-one brings logic into this, so the social consensus is that we're 12 days from the end of the decade.
How sure are we that it's actually 2019 years since 1 AD?
I suspect the answer is "very sure", but I don't know which records do this, or whether any of them are in dispute or contradictory, particularly with various calendar changes etc.
I should probably wander off to Wikipedia now.