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> 2000ies Now this is interesting. I've seen a lot of "40ties", "90ies", etc around, and I'm not sure why people do that. But once you've done it, it's clear h
by thaumasiotes 2y ago
> 2000ies
Now this is interesting. I've seen a lot of "40ties", "90ies", etc around, and I'm not sure why people do that. But once you've done it, it's clear how to read the text. Most of the non-numeric suffix is redundant; people mean "forties", not "forty-ties".
But "2000ies" has no potential redundancy and no plausible pronunciation. It's spelled as if you're supposed to pronounce it "two thousandies", but there's no such thing as a thousandy.
- alt227 2y agoI enjoyed your analysis. I think people should really just be putting 's on the end, then it works for all: 40's, 50's, 2000's. The apostrophe is unecesary, but IMO without it it looks like the 's' is a standard unit of measurement: 40s, 50s, 2000s
- Muromec 2y agotwothousandies and twenty-zeroes makes sense