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Title: Now that it's nearly over, what do you call the first decade of the 21st century Post by: The Mikado on April 10, 2009, 05:05:19 PM If you really want to be entertaining, sum the decade up. But right now, I just want to name it.
Title: Re: Now that it's nearly over, what do you call the first decade of the 21st century Post by: Scam of God on April 10, 2009, 05:06:07 PM Bad.
Title: Re: Now that it's nearly over, what do you call the first decade of the 21st century Post by: Keystone Phil on April 10, 2009, 05:07:48 PM This has always bothered me. I say "the O's" but that's really stupid. I think we face the same problem in the next decade. "The Twenty Teens?" I mean, do we really say the "Nineteen teens" when talking about 1910-1919?
Title: Re: Now that it's nearly over, what do you call the first decade of the 21st century Post by: Bono on April 10, 2009, 05:17:07 PM The Noughties.
Title: Re: Now that it's nearly over, what do you call the first decade of the 21st century Post by: A18 on April 10, 2009, 05:19:10 PM I think we face the same problem in the next decade. "The Twenty Teens?" I mean, do we really say the "Nineteen teens" when talking about 1910-1919? The years 2010, 2011, and 2012 don't fit comfortably under a "teens" label. I think we are in need of a neologism—or two. Title: Re: Now that it's nearly over, what do you call the first decade of the 21st century Post by: Lief 🗽 on April 10, 2009, 05:31:42 PM The Zeroes or the aughts.
Title: Re: Now that it's nearly over, what do you call the first decade of the 21st century Post by: k-onmmunist on April 10, 2009, 06:04:37 PM This has always bothered me. I say "the O's" but that's really stupid. I think we face the same problem in the next decade. "The Twenty Teens?" I mean, do we really say the "Nineteen teens" when talking about 1910-1919? I say Nineteen Tens. Title: Re: Now that it's nearly over, what do you call the first decade of the 21st century Post by: paul718 on April 10, 2009, 06:29:07 PM This has always bothered me. I say "the O's" but that's really stupid. I think we face the same problem in the next decade. "The Twenty Teens?" I mean, do we really say the "Nineteen teens" when talking about 1910-1919? I say Nineteen Tens. Me too. For 2000-2009, I like "the two-thousands". For 2009-2010, I like "the twenty-tens". Title: Re: Now that it's nearly over, what do you call the first decade of the 21st century Post by: Mint on April 10, 2009, 06:33:09 PM The Zeros or '00s.
Title: Re: Now that it's nearly over, what do you call the first decade of the 21st century Post by: Associate Justice PiT on April 10, 2009, 08:27:44 PM The Aughts. Turn of the century should only be used to refer to the late 1890s.
Title: Re: Now that it's nearly over, what do you call the first decade of the 21st century Post by: JohnFKennedy on April 10, 2009, 10:08:13 PM Turn of the century should only be used to refer to the late 1890s. No, fin de siècle should really only be used to refer to the transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth-century (because it encompasses a social/cultural movement rather than just a temporal transition), but while the default with 'turn of the century' is nineteenth to twentieth, that doesn't mean it should only be used to refer to that; we don't really talk of 'turn of the century' culture in the same way that we talk of fin de siècle culture. Title: Re: Now that it's nearly over, what do you call the first decade of the 21st century Post by: Bandit3 the Worker on April 11, 2009, 01:03:24 AM If you really want to be entertaining, sum the decade up. But right now, I just want to name it. America's Lost Decade. Lost at the hands of a totalitarian named Bush. Title: Re: Now that it's nearly over, what do you call the first decade of the 21st century Post by: Bandit3 the Worker on April 11, 2009, 01:04:09 AM This has always bothered me. I say "the O's" but that's really stupid. I think we face the same problem in the next decade. "The Twenty Teens?" I mean, do we really say the "Nineteen teens" when talking about 1910-1919? Everyone calls it the 1910s, if they mention it at all. Title: Re: Now that it's nearly over, what do you call the first decade of the 21st century Post by: Associate Justice PiT on April 11, 2009, 01:05:55 AM This has always bothered me. I say "the O's" but that's really stupid. I think we face the same problem in the next decade. "The Twenty Teens?" I mean, do we really say the "Nineteen teens" when talking about 1910-1919? Everyone calls it the 1910s, if they mention it at all. I just call it the Teens. There's almost a 100% that I'll call the 2010s the Teens as well. Title: Re: Now that it's nearly over, what do you call the first decade of the 21st century Post by: Mint on April 11, 2009, 01:07:46 AM If you really want to be entertaining, sum the decade up. But right now, I just want to name it. America's Lost Decade. Title: Re: Now that it's nearly over, what do you call the first decade of the 21st century Post by: LastMcGovernite on April 11, 2009, 08:27:10 AM My vote goes to "Purgatory".
Title: Re: Now that it's nearly over, what do you call the first decade of the 21st century Post by: Smid on April 11, 2009, 09:17:45 AM The Noughties. This is what I've heard it called. Title: Re: Now that it's nearly over, what do you call the first decade of the 21st century Post by: Tetro Kornbluth on April 11, 2009, 12:01:58 PM I've always called it the Noughties.
Which I think appropriately sums up the worth of the decade. Title: Re: Now that it's nearly over, what do you call the first decade of the 21st century Post by: Joe Biden 2020 on April 12, 2009, 09:29:37 PM 2000s. I'll probably call the next decade the "Twenty-tens". I will always have a fond memory of this decade. I came into adulthood in April 2000, voted for the first time in November 2000, graduated high school/entered college in 2001, registered Democrat for the first time in 2006, received my Bachelor's of Science in E-Commerce in 2007, started my current career in 2008. Plus, Bush wasn't as bad as he is cracked up to be. After all, he did keep the nation safe for the final seven years of his administration. He wasn't great by any means. He went into Afghanistan which was the right move, went into Iraq, which was the right move with wrong motives, but forgot about Afghanistan in his second term.
Title: Re: Now that it's nearly over, what do you call the first decade of the 21st century Post by: dead0man on April 13, 2009, 01:28:03 PM The Oughts/Aughts. Everything else is stupid.
Title: Re: Now that it's nearly over, what do you call the first decade of the 21st century Post by: Eraserhead on April 13, 2009, 01:29:14 PM Title: Re: Now that it's nearly over, what do you call the first decade of the 21st century Post by: A18 on April 13, 2009, 01:29:37 PM This is the decade that witnessed the birth of YouTube and Wikipedia, massive online digital libraries, iTunes, podcasting, and the rest. It also gave us American Idol, but I can forgive that.
Title: Re: Now that it's nearly over, what do you call the first decade of the 21st century Post by: Bandit3 the Worker on April 13, 2009, 01:30:57 PM This is the decade that witnessed the birth of YouTube and Wikipedia, massive online digital libraries, iTunes, podcasting, and the rest. It also gave us American Idol, but I can forgive that. It also witnessed the death of MP3.com, the decline of Yahoo!, and further media consolidation. Title: Re: Now that it's nearly over, what do you call the first decade of the 21st century Post by: Psychic Octopus on April 13, 2009, 02:33:19 PM The 00s.
Does anyone else see a pattern? We go through a period of War and/or tenseness (10's, 40's, 80's) Then a period of peace/prosperity (20's, 50's, 90's) Then a period of hell/corruption/war (30's, 60's, 00's) And then normal/filler decades (70's, possibly 10's or 20's?) Title: Re: Now that it's nearly over, what do you call the first decade of the 21st century Post by: Marokai Backbeat on April 13, 2009, 04:09:30 PM I always refer to it as the 2000's, but as someone else already said, this was our Lost Decade.
Title: Re: Now that it's nearly over, what do you call the first decade of the 21st century Post by: jokerman on April 13, 2009, 04:15:12 PM The 00s. Does anyone else see a pattern? We go through a period of War and/or tenseness (10's, 40's, 80's) Then a period of peace/prosperity (20's, 50's, 90's) Then a period of hell/corruption/war (30's, 60's, 00's) And then normal/filler decades (70's, possibly 10's or 20's?) Title: Re: Now that it's nearly over, what do you call the first decade of the 21st century Post by: Psychic Octopus on April 13, 2009, 06:25:22 PM The 00s. Does anyone else see a pattern? We go through a period of War and/or tenseness (10's, 40's, 80's) Then a period of peace/prosperity (20's, 50's, 90's) Then a period of hell/corruption/war (30's, 60's, 00's) And then normal/filler decades (70's, possibly 10's or 20's?) I meant 2010's or 2020's as filler decades. Anyway, your right, they are on different scales, just for comparison Title: Re: Now that it's nearly over, what do you call the first decade of the 21st century Post by: Frodo on March 16, 2012, 05:38:46 PM The Two-Thousands. This coming decade I call the Twenty-Tens.
Title: Re: Now that it's nearly over, what do you call the first decade of the 21st century Post by: Grumpier Than Thou on March 16, 2012, 05:39:49 PM The 2000s.
Title: Re: Now that it's nearly over, what do you call the first decade of the 21st century Post by: minionofmidas on March 17, 2012, 07:08:47 AM The early 21st century.
Title: Re: Now that it's nearly over, what do you call the first decade of the 21st century Post by: Del Tachi on March 17, 2012, 09:41:48 PM I've always called it the "twenty hundrends", kinda like how 1901-1910 were the "nineteen hundrends"...just saying...
Title: Re: Now that it's nearly over, what do you call the first decade of the 21st century Post by: courts on March 17, 2012, 09:44:14 PM Zeroes.
Title: Re: Now that it's nearly over, what do you call the first decade of the 21st century Post by: Jax27 on March 18, 2012, 10:48:25 AM the uh oh's
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