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The article does not really resolve the ambiguity with 2000s which usually means 2000-2009, not 2000-2099. That said, in Finnish language people never count ce
by ash 2y ago
The article does not really resolve the ambiguity with 2000s which usually means 2000-2009, not 2000-2099.
That said, in Finnish language people never count centuries. It's always "2000-luku" and "1900-luku", not 21th and 20th.
- tetris11 2y ago> This leaves ambiguous how to refer to decades like 1800-1809. For these you should ~~specify the wildcard digits as “the 180*s” manually~~ write out the range. Please do not write “the 181st decade”. I think it wouldn't be wrong to say "the 1800s decade" or "the primus 2000s" or "the alpha 1900s"
- ash 2y agoI don't find it persuasive. First of all, people are not going to start writing and saying wildcards. Second, there is an established convention to say "2000s" and mean 2000-2009.
- tetris11 2y agono, that part was crossed out as a joke (hence my attempt to add '~' before and after the crossed out section)
- danschuller 2y agoIt means that now but that meaning will fade away as the decades advance.