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It is upsetting to hear the phrase “turn of the century” used to describe the year 2000. I know it’s correct, but it still feels very wrong.
by phpnode 3y ago
It is upsetting to hear the phrase “turn of the century” used to describe the year 2000. I know it’s correct, but it still feels very wrong.
- Waterluvian 3y agoAlmost as wrong to me as the friendly jab I got from a teenager last week about “being born in the 1900s.”
- jamiek88 3y agoOooh! Nice burn, kid! It still makes me do mental arithmetic when someone gives post 2000 as a birthdate. Shit, my nephew was born post 2010 and he’s twelve which is weird because 2010 was like, three years ago.