Kaffis Mark V wrote:
"Ten" or "twenty-ten."
I'm still frustrated that I have nothing to call the previous decade that satisfies me. The "naughts" or "oughts" sounds pretentious and grandfatherly, respectively, and the "two thousands" is more syllables than I want, while also being inconsistent with the "teens," "twenties," "thirties," etc. nomenclature that will be used.
I'm still frustrated that I have nothing to call the previous decade that satisfies me. The "naughts" or "oughts" sounds pretentious and grandfatherly, respectively, and the "two thousands" is more syllables than I want, while also being inconsistent with the "teens," "twenties," "thirties," etc. nomenclature that will be used.
You can always be an annoying nerd, like me, and get pissed off at people who think the decade has ended, when we're of course in the final year right now.
When I was a kid, people always said "the 1900s" to refer to the first decade of the 20th century. Sometime in the 90s, however, I found myself confused when I noticed that people were using the phrase to mean the entire freakin' century.
It's two-thousand ten, and we're in the last year of the naughts (heard it on the BBC the other day, liked it). I'm getting old enough, though, that I don't really care, at this point.
