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> Nobody start "the decade" in the 1 year. wow rude, I do. I think the 60s started 1961-01-01 and understand that people usually mean "the years that give a qu
by falsedan 7y ago
> Nobody start "the decade" in the 1 year.
wow rude, I do. I think the 60s started 1961-01-01 and understand that people usually mean "the years that give a quotient of 196 when divided by 10".
I understand that we use ordinals to refer to centuries, also I understand how that's unrelated to which specific years are in a decade/century/millennium
fun fact the Australian constitution came into force on the 1st of January, 1901, aligning with the starting boundary of the 20th century.
- cylinder 7y agoSo if someone mentioned something nice happening in 1960 you'd say "yeah the Fifties were great!" ?
- falsedan 7y agowow rude again, that's not 'assuming the best intent of the commentator' and is against this site's code of conduct > [I] understand that people usually mean "the years that give a quotient of 196 when divided by 10". since I'm not a pedantic sicko that gets off on telling people they're wrong and lording my hugely advanced intellect over them, I use human words for genuine natural interactions.