Happy new year
Happy new year
You know full-well that is never going to be generally accepted. It's an even harder sell than the new century.Originally Posted by Yw-slayer
Hope people here and everywhere strike a good balance between finding enjoyment and focusing on addressing serious difficult problems.
Last edited by SportWagon; January 1st, 2020 at 10:03 AM.
Generally accepted "in the US".
It's the way ordinals work. And it works the same as centuries and millennia.
Being unable to understand the most basic rules of measurement is actually a serious difficult problem.
But then again, we are in 2019 and someone, I'll say no names, still uses barbaric imperial system...
And someone doesn't even know what year it is.
LOL well noticed!
I'm normally a stickler for these things, but I'm okay when it comes to decades starting with 0. Mostly because decades are generally not thought of in reference to 1 A.D.
No one is calling it the 202nd decade. In that case, yeah I'd take issue if they said it started today. That starts in a year.
When talking of millennia or centuries, we normally do put it in that context (21st century, second millennium).
A decade is just 10 years. Technically every year (or hell, every day or even second) is the start of a new decade. We generally do separate decades by the tens digit, so in this case I think it's fine to reference today as the start of a new decade.
Context is important.
Even Oxford defines it as starting with 0 (and sometimes 1)
Last edited by Freude am Fahren; January 1st, 2020 at 05:04 PM.
Just to throw fuel on the fire:
Yes, this is the reasonable response.I'm normally a stickler for these things, but I'm okay when it comes to decades starting with 0. Mostly because decades are generally not thought of in reference to 1 A.D.
No one is calling it the 202nd decade. In that case, yeah I'd take issue if they said it started today. That starts in a year.
When talking of millennia or centuries, we normally do put it in that context (21st century, second millennium).
A decade is just 10 years. Technically every year (or hell, every day or even second) is the start of a new decade. We generally do separate decades by the tens digit, so in this case I think it's fine to reference today as the start of a new decade.
Context is important.
Even Oxford defines it as starting with 0 (and sometimes 1)
People that claim otherwise are cut from the same cloth as the 'Die Hard is a Christmas movie' folks. They just want attention. Let it go and move on.
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