What will we call the 2000-2009 decade?

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In summary, we are in the last month of the decade and we still have no name for it. It was called the oughts in the previous century. But don't get ahead of yourself, in spite of the media starting to talk about the best of the decade, we have 1 year left in this decade. There are 10yrs in a decade right? When you start counting how often do you start with zero rather then 1? It all follows from there. 2000 was the last year of the 20th century, there seems to be some justice in that, No? We will call it decade of PF :approve: Oh 0s. :biggrin: or Dumb0s
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We have the 20s through the 90s for the decades 1920s to 1990s, but how will we refer back to this decade? We're in the last month of the decade and we still have no name for it.
 
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It was called the oughts in the previous century.

But don't get ahead of yourself, in spite of the media starting to talk about the best of the decade, we have 1 year left in this decade.

There are 10yrs in a decade right?

When you start counting how often do you start with zero rather then 1?
 
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I think we are going to just quietly draw a veil over it and not mention it
 
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Every century people go through this. There should be a solution to this problem by now.
 
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Yeah, 10 yrs ago I had to point out to nearly everybody I knew that there was NO year zero. So the first year of the first decade of the first century was year 1, not year 0. It all follows from there.

2000 was the last year of the 20th century, there seems to be some justice in that, No?
 
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We will call it decade of PF :approve:
 
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Oh 0s. :biggrin:

or

Oh S0s

or

Dumb0s (Zz might like that one)

or

Cheeri0s. :rofl:
 
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Borek said:
We will call it decade of PF :approve:

PF0s
 
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Borek said:
We will call it decade of PF :approve:

Works for me, IIRC I first registered in Dec 01.
 
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Time magazine called it the http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1942834-1,00.html" [Broken].
 
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The naughty aughties has been suggested.
 
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lisab said:
Time magazine called it the http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1942834-1,00.html" [Broken].

That's pretty accurate.
 
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lisab said:
Time magazine called it the http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1942834-1,00.html" [Broken].

It wouldn't have been so bad if it weren't for 9/11. That could ruin any decade.
 
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double oh decade
 
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Basically the 90's without the decent music and minus the cynicism; I say our generation, people who grew up as young adults and into adulthood in this decade should appropriately be called the entitlement decade, where we think we are entitled to free things because many products are now easily available on the internet, where a decade a go they were not .
 
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Jimmy is a nice name.
 
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Astronuc said:
Oh 0s. :biggrin:

or

Oh S0s

or

Dumb0s (Zz might like that one)

or

Cheeri0s. :rofl:


Ten years ago I thought of calling them the "twenty-Os."
 
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jimmysnyder said:
Jimmy is a nice name.

jimmy0s
 
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Good luck with that Integral...I tried to explain it at my Y2K party that we were celebrating a year too soon but it didn't go over well.
 
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lisab said:
Time magazine called it the http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1942834-1,00.html" [Broken].
I saw that - I'm cancelling my subscription.
 
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Integral said:
When you start counting how often do you start with zero rather then 1?
All the time. I'm a programmer. :biggrin:


It'll be called The Naughties.
 
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russ_watters said:
Good luck with that Integral...I tried to explain it at my Y2K party that we were celebrating a year too soon but it didn't go over well.

I think I saw a light come on in ONE person I talked to. Drives me crazy!
 
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DaveC426913 said:
All the time. I'm a programmer. :biggrin:


It'll be called The Naughties.

Sheesh! There is one in every crowd! Even so, if you owed me a $1000 I bet you would start with 1 when you layed down that first $100!
 
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Integral said:
I think I saw a light come on in ONE person I talked to. Drives me crazy!
My proudest achievment in all my years of education was when I was awarded a can of Coke by my 7th grade math teacher for winning a bet with him that there was no zero year. I had happened to watch an episode of 3-2-1 Contact on the subject a few days before and called him out when he made an error about it. He never admitted being wrong*, but bought me the soda anyway. I'm counting it as a win.

*He goal-post shifted and said he really meant there was a zero point.
 
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When we talked about "2000", we were (generally) referring to the "end of the 2nd millennium" and correctly it ended at the end of 2000. But we are NEVER going to fix this in the minds of people, especially ten years later (and Integral, when my kids were born, it took a whole year before we said they were "1." This perception dominates all other considerations, and is what makes the correction nearly impossible. We have to let it go!)

However,

When referring to decades, we are ONLY referring to how they are spoken. The "80s" were a ten year span in which the date included saying "eighty-___." This included 1980 itself. This past year, everyone said "two-thousand-four" or "two thousand and five" and such.

I predicted people would be saying "twenty-O-four" and "twenty-O-eight."

Nope.

But I do think that in a few decades, we will be saying the years as "twenty-thirteen" and "Twenty-twenty-five" etc. By that time, I am certain we will retro-activley refer to this ten year span in the manner of "twenty-O-seven" etc. Thus, I'm sticking with "Twenty-Os."

Give it time.
 
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jimmysnyder said:
Jimmy is a nice name.

http://news-political.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/castrol-use-your-dipstick.jpg
 
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The decade called me last nite. It said it wants everyone to call it "Loretta."
 
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lisab said:
Time magazine called it the http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1942834-1,00.html" [Broken].
I think that's a reflection on 9/11, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, flare up between Israelis & Palesitinians, the hurricanes (Katrina, Rita, Ike) in US, Typhoon Ingrid (2005) in Australia, other Typhoons between 2001 and 2009 ravaging S.E. Asia and W. Pacific nations, 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake & tsunamis (230,000 killed), earthquakes (Gujarat, 2001; Kashmir/N. Pakistan 2005; Sumatran & Saomoa, 2009), 2006 European floods, 2007 Australian floods, 2009 fires in Victoria, Australia (173 fatalities, 414 injured, 1.1 million acres burned, many structures destroyed) and numerous other bushfires in Australia 2001-2009, the global financial crisis, . . . . just to name a few events.
 
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Astronuc said:
just to name a few events.

Just a few. It's been a bit of a rough start to the century, I'd say.
 
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GeorginaS said:
Just a few. It's been a bit of a rough start to the century, I'd say.

I agree, it's been rocky.

I remember talking with a woman who was about my age, just a few weeks before the Y2K "disaster"...she was one of those who was nearly hysterical about it.

I told her I wasn't so worried, every generation gets tested. There was the Great Depression, WWII, the turbulent events of the 60s...but those of us who came of age in the 70s and 80s, we haven't had our test yet. I was confident we'd do just fine.

Well, we all know Y2K was a bust!

But the last decade...wow. It's been a slog. Maybe that was our test...?
 
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old people are itt
 
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lisab said:
But the last decade...wow. It's been a slog. Maybe that was our test...?
If that was our test, we should consider ourselves lucky. It wasn't anywhere close to as rough as the '60s or '70s.
 
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lisab said:
I agree, it's been rocky.

I remember talking with a woman who was about my age, just a few weeks before the Y2K "disaster"...she was one of those who was nearly hysterical about it.

I told her I wasn't so worried, every generation gets tested. There was the Great Depression, WWII, the turbulent events of the 60s...but those of us who came of age in the 70s and 80s, we haven't had our test yet. I was confident we'd do just fine.

Well, we all know Y2K was a bust!

But the last decade...wow. It's been a slog. Maybe that was our test...?

Yeah, okay, but who was doing the testing? Because, you know why? I want to have a serious one-on-one discussion with that person. Seriously.
 
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Astronuc said:
I think that's a reflection on 9/11, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, flare up between Israelis & Palesitinians...
As wars go, they don't stack up real well to the wars of the 20th century.
...the hurricanes (Katrina, Rita, Ike) in US, Typhoon Ingrid (2005) in Australia, other Typhoons between 2001 and 2009 ravaging S.E. Asia and W. Pacific nations, 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake & tsunamis (230,000 killed), earthquakes (Gujarat, 2001; Kashmir/N. Pakistan 2005; Sumatran & Saomoa, 2009), 2006 European floods, 2007 Australian floods, 2009 fires in Victoria, Australia (173 fatalities, 414 injured, 1.1 million acres burned, many structures destroyed) and numerous other bushfires in Australia 2001-2009...
Natural disasters? Really? Only one of those is worth mentioning (the tsunami). None of the rest would probably even register on a top 100 list.
the global financial crisis, . . . ..
Almost as bad as the 1970s!

I guess you could say that the 2000s were one of the worst decades since WWII... But since there were only 6, being second or third worst isn't saying all that much. Yeah, it kinda sucked a little, but "decade from hell"? Sensationalism at its worst.
 

1. What is the official name for the decade from 2000-2009?

The official name for the decade from 2000-2009 is the "2000s" or "the 2000-2009 decade".

2. Why is the 2000-2009 decade sometimes referred to as the "aughts"?

The term "aughts" is derived from the Old English word "aught", meaning zero or nothing. It is used to refer to the decade from 2000-2009 because the year 2000 is often represented as "00", similar to how the number zero is represented as "0".

3. Is there a specific reason why the 2000-2009 decade is not referred to as the "twenty hundreds"?

The term "twenty hundreds" is not commonly used to refer to the decade from 2000-2009 because it is not a round number like "the 1900s" or "the 1800s". Also, the term "twenty hundreds" could be confused with the years 2000-2099, which is a much longer time period.

4. What are some other popular names for the 2000-2009 decade?

Some other popular names for the decade from 2000-2009 include the "naughties", "zeros", "double-ohs", and "the turn of the century".

5. Will the 2000-2009 decade ever have an official name like other decades in history?

It is unlikely that the 2000-2009 decade will have an official name like other decades in history, as it is a relatively recent time period and there is no consensus on a specific name. It is more likely that the decade will continue to be referred to as the "2000s" or "the 2000-2009 decade".

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