rain wrote
Reply to comment by underscores in it won't be long before "the 20s" will generally be understood to mean the current decade, instead of the 1920s by cowloom
People haven't really been using that wording to refer to the current decade since the 90s, so it feels kind of dated.
I think that’s just because there aren’t any universally agreed on shortcuts to refer to the 2000-2009 and the 2010-2019 decades. Not enough people use nought for the “noughties” to have caught on, and “the teens” leaves out 2010-2012. At some point I expect it to comeback, possibly ironically at first, but once it’s back I think it will stick around again. People love short cutesy labels.
flabberghaster wrote
Most I hear people refer to 2010 to 2019 as just "the twenty tens"
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