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Post by Dave at the Movies on Dec 18, 2009 16:21:48 GMT -5
Why? It is ridiculous. People fifty years from now that read articles about it will be totally confused. What should they call this decade? And also what is this I hear about this new year coming up not being the start of the next decade? Why wouldn't it?
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Post by Mayonnaise on Dec 18, 2009 16:32:45 GMT -5
For the new year not being the start of the new decade, year counting began with year 1, not 0. So it will not be a full ten years until the end of 2010/start of 2011, not the beginning.
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Post by @TenaciousBe on Dec 18, 2009 16:35:42 GMT -5
Precisely, a decade = 1-10, not 0-9. Also why there was a big hullabaloo about the year 2000 not being the true start of the new Millennium.
Also, Google Chrome spell check just blew my mind twice. Hullabaloo is a real word, and Millennium has 2 n's. Crazy talk.
Also, what else would you call this decade? The zeroes? The oughts?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2009 16:49:46 GMT -5
Eh, I personally prefer to think of a decade as 0-9 in large part because it's a much more handy divider.
Anyway, for this decade... Is hard to come up with a suitable title for it. The 2000's might just be the best way to sum it up, but then that's get into the issue of what to call the century or millennium.
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Post by Dave at the Movies on Dec 18, 2009 17:00:09 GMT -5
So technically 1990 to 1999 wasn't the 90s? 1991 to 2000 was? That has go to be the biggest nit pick I have ever heard.
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Dec 18, 2009 17:10:59 GMT -5
So technically 1990 to 1999 wasn't the 90s? 1991 to 2000 was? That has go to be the biggest nit pick I have ever heard. Plus it is strange, this decade seems to be the only one people actually use this logic on. Every time I see someone talking about the 60s or 70s or 80s, etc. they are counting the 0 year through the 9 near. For example, the 70s is 1970 to 1979. Other wise, 1980 is counted in the 70s, and that's not right at all, because it isn't in the 70s, it is the beginning of the 80s. This is the 2000s. The next decade begins in 2010 and is the start of the...I dunno, the 10s? The 2010s? Whatever..... Point is, this decade was 2000-2009. A decade is 10 year. Let's count the years. Year 1: 2000 Year 2: 2001 Year 3: 2002 Year 4: 2003 Year 5: 2004 Year 6: 2005 Year 7: 2006 Year 8: 2007 Year 9: 2008 Year 10: 2009 2010 would be the 11th year. Start of a new decade, peeps.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Dec 18, 2009 17:11:51 GMT -5
I hate that. Definitions change to what the masses think is right. If ain't was not a word it is now and 00-09 was a decade.
Also it doesn't sound good to say the number decade til the 20s
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Post by Dave at the Movies on Dec 18, 2009 17:14:54 GMT -5
So technically 1990 to 1999 wasn't the 90s? 1991 to 2000 was? That has go to be the biggest nit pick I have ever heard. Plus it is strange, this decade seems to be the only one people actually use this logic on. Every time I see someone talking about the 60s or 70s or 80s, etc. they are counting the 0 year through the 9 near. For example, the 70s is 1970 to 1979. Other wise, 1980 is counted in the 70s, and that's not right at all, because it isn't in the 70s, it is the beginning of the 80s. This is the 2000s. The next decade begins in 2010 and is the start of the...I dunno, the 10s? The 2010s? Whatever..... Point is, this decade was 2000-2009. A decade is 10 year. Let's count the years. Year 1: 2000 Year 2: 2001 Year 3: 2002 Year 4: 2003 Year 5: 2004 Year 6: 2005 Year 7: 2006 Year 8: 2007 Year 9: 2008 Year 10: 2009 2010 would be the 11th year. Start of a new decade, peeps. this is how I see it because it just makes more sense. The only thing this really effects is the beginning of time. Ten years is ten years.
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Dec 18, 2009 17:16:25 GMT -5
I hate that. Definitions change to what the masses think is right. If ain't was not a word it is now and 00-09 was a decade. Also it doesn't sound good to say the number decade til the 20s Thing is, pretty much everyone has always counted a decade as 0-9. Anyone who counts 1-0 is just nitpicking and is causing confusion for confusion's sake. Plus counting 0-9 just makes sense. Going the other way means that Year 0 didn't count/wasn't a year at all. Hell truth is, regardless of what we call it, right now technically isn't 2009. It is just 2009 on a specific calendar.....
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Post by Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie on Dec 18, 2009 18:07:19 GMT -5
it's because the people who drew up the gregorian calander didn't "believe" in a YEAR ZERO, and started at ONE, that's where all this came about
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Post by Bo Rida on Dec 18, 2009 18:09:45 GMT -5
It tends to be called the noughties over here, I think that's worse.
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Post by Cry Me a Wiggle on Dec 18, 2009 18:16:58 GMT -5
Technically it's not the end of the true decade, but it's the end of the numbering system we usually associate decades by ('70s, '80s, '90s). The only problem is this time we have no idea what to call that period of ten years, leading to all sorts of arguments about the very nature of a decade.
It's stupid. I'm tired of defining time by a set of ten years. The '80s ended in 1990, but the culture of the '80s continued for a few years. Same thing with the '70s into the '80s, the '60s into the '70s, the '50s into the '60s. Pop culture slowly evolves, it doesn't immediately break when we hit a new ten year cycle.
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Post by Mayonnaise on Dec 18, 2009 19:19:26 GMT -5
So technically 1990 to 1999 wasn't the 90s? 1991 to 2000 was? That has go to be the biggest nit pick I have ever heard. Plus it is strange, this decade seems to be the only one people actually use this logic on. Every time I see someone talking about the 60s or 70s or 80s, etc. they are counting the 0 year through the 9 near. For example, the 70s is 1970 to 1979. Other wise, 1980 is counted in the 70s, and that's not right at all, because it isn't in the 70s, it is the beginning of the 80s. This is the 2000s. The next decade begins in 2010 and is the start of the...I dunno, the 10s? The 2010s? Whatever..... Point is, this decade was 2000-2009. A decade is 10 year. Let's count the years. Year 1: 2000 Year 2: 2001 Year 3: 2002 Year 4: 2003 Year 5: 2004 Year 6: 2005 Year 7: 2006 Year 8: 2007 Year 9: 2008 Year 10: 2009 2010 would be the 11th year. Start of a new decade, peeps. Yeah, the 90's were 90-99 but, going by the calendar, the decade was 91-2000 because there was no year 0 when the calendar we use was created.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Dec 18, 2009 19:29:54 GMT -5
Plus it is strange, this decade seems to be the only one people actually use this logic on. Every time I see someone talking about the 60s or 70s or 80s, etc. they are counting the 0 year through the 9 near. For example, the 70s is 1970 to 1979. Other wise, 1980 is counted in the 70s, and that's not right at all, because it isn't in the 70s, it is the beginning of the 80s. This is the 2000s. The next decade begins in 2010 and is the start of the...I dunno, the 10s? The 2010s? Whatever..... Point is, this decade was 2000-2009. A decade is 10 year. Let's count the years. Year 1: 2000 Year 2: 2001 Year 3: 2002 Year 4: 2003 Year 5: 2004 Year 6: 2005 Year 7: 2006 Year 8: 2007 Year 9: 2008 Year 10: 2009 2010 would be the 11th year. Start of a new decade, peeps. Yeah, the 90's were 90-99 but, going by the calendar, the decade was 91-2000 because there was no year 0 when the calendar we use was created. Nitpicking rebel
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Post by KevFalcön07 on Dec 18, 2009 19:53:18 GMT -5
"25th Anniversary of Wrestlemania!"
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Dec 18, 2009 19:55:16 GMT -5
Also Anniversary means years so 6 months is not an "anniversary" But again nitpicking
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Post by Red Lion on Dec 18, 2009 20:11:51 GMT -5
This decade is called "the noughties" This whole decade thing is confusing, I believe in the standard the 90's doesn't actually include 2000 belief. I always hated, even at my tender age of 10, the people that tried to piss on the Millennium parties by trying to be all cool and saying that we should be celebrating next year instead...because I'm sure that they had huge Millennium parties to celebrate 2001.
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Post by Throwback on Dec 18, 2009 21:43:16 GMT -5
once 2013 hits I assume we'll call it the teens. But until then. I just say the year.
But based on what has happened in the last 10 years we really should be calling it the oh ohs
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Post by thwak is T.hawk on Dec 18, 2009 22:12:28 GMT -5
I call it the naughty oughts.
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Post by Lazy peon on Dec 18, 2009 22:37:09 GMT -5
What the hell is noughties.
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