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| Inspector 57
Sun 5/11/2008 8:40p | Alexbook's "How do you say '2008'?" thread brought this nagging question to the front of my mind again.
What IS this decade called?!
Think about it. Have you ever heard a newscaster use a term for this decade?
Are we in "The 2000's"? The "Naughts"? The...
I honestly cannot remember anyone in the mainstream media even taking a tentative stab at it. It's as if this decade is unnameable -- that everyone is afraid to say the wrong thing, or that there just IS no term.
Nine years into it, and it's still the Decade With No Name.
Too weird.
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| friendofdd
Sun 5/11/2008 8:54p | You always ask the hard questions, don't you?
In my head I call it "the aughts". Aught one, aught two etc. That was the way my grandparents referred to a hundred years ago. However, I don't think I've ever said it out loud. |
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| smedley
Sun 5/11/2008 9:06p | I57 made my brain hurt... |
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| jdub
Sun 5/11/2008 10:26p |
The day I use the word "aught" seriously is the day I stock up on Geritol and Big Diapers.
I call the decade the "oh-ohs," or actually, the "uh-ohs." An amazingly, it's not been inaccurate.
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| trekkeruss
Sun 5/11/2008 10:33p | So far, Disney is calling it the Year Of A Million Dreams. LOL.
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| DlandDug
Sun 5/11/2008 11:20p | Well, I call it the two thousands. Next decade will be the teens. Then the twenties, thirties, forties and so on. Makes me feel like I'll be living through flappers, bootleg gin, and big band music... |
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| gadzuux
Mon 5/12/2008 12:12a | I predict that, culturally, we're on the verge of a significant change. Starting in 2010, there will be a shift away from saying "two thousand" in favor of saying "twenty" - as in "twenty ten", twenty twelve" and so on.
It doesn't work for the first nine years because "twenty eight" sounds like 28, so it won't really kick in until 2010. But soon you won't hear anybody saying "two thousand" at all.
Ain't that cool?
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| Liberty Belle
Mon 5/12/2008 1:41a | Here it's referred to in the media as "the naughties". I, personally, don't really call it anything. |
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| u k fan
Mon 5/12/2008 1:54a | ^^^ Here in the UK it's the Noughties as well!!! |
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| X-san
Mon 5/12/2008 3:24a | I thought it was the Disney decade? |
