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Immigrating from a country that uses "1700s", it probably took a decade before I had internalized to subtract 1 to get the real number. I will resent it till I
by BurningFrog 2y ago
Immigrating from a country that uses "1700s", it probably took a decade before I had internalized to subtract 1 to get the real number.
I will resent it till I die.
- bowsamic 2y agoI find it weird when people take a long time for these little things. My wife still struggles with the German numbers (85 = fünfundachtzig) and the half thing with time (8:30 = halb neun) even though I managed to switch over to those very quickly. I think it depends on the person how hard it is
- BurningFrog 2y agoI think this one was hard for me because centuries don't come up that often. If it was something I saw/heard every day, I would have adapted much faster.
- Too 2y agoHere we say something like the "ninteen-hundred-era" for the 1900s, "ninteen-hundred-ten-era", for 1910s, "ninteen-hundred-twenty-era", etc. In writing 1900-era, 1910-era, 1920-era. The most recent decades are referred to with only the "70-era" for the 70s. The word for age/epoch/era in our language is a lot more casual in this setting. The 20xx vs 200x does indeed leave some room for ambiguity in writing, verbally most people say 20-hundred-era vs 20-null-null-era.
- dinkumthinkum 2y agoResent is a little strong isn’t it? I feel like today we have such a victim culture that we are oppressed by the most trivial of matters.