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.

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dRLY 2 points 8 days ago

Fair, the past two decades just don't have the same "ring" as "the 20's" or any of the next ones. I still remember people realizing that they never really knew what the "20's/30's/etc" naming for the first decade of the 1900's after the 90's ended. I feel like local news and other media made points to tell people "the noughties/oughts". So much attention really put on the simple shortening of everything after "20's" last century. Even "the teens" just doesn't have the same "ring" to it, and since 10-12 aren't "teens".

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N0t_5ure 5 points 9 days ago

After the financial collapse.

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dRLY 2 points 8 days ago

Which sucks since the 20's haven't been "roaring" economically. Though maybe media will still try to make "the roaring 20's" a thing by talking about how mad people have been.

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defrostedLasagna4921 3 points 8 days ago

Nothing cool about this decade.

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SpatchyIsOnline 3 points 8 days 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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dRLY 1 point 8 days ago

This all day. Have to get to the next decade to start having "the 20's" replace the 1920's in references to history. Only other way was for people talking about future tense of things to come. Young Gen Z and Gen Alpha will have the easiest time in just thinking of this decade as "the 20's" since they haven't been around for last century.

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darthelmet 3 points 9 days 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?

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