The end of a decade...
Dec. 14th, 2009 04:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpWhere's all the folks going, "Ri-i-i-ight!"
Back at the end of 2000, I put in my two coppers about the start of the "new" millennium (Have you had your millennium yet?), which was partially prompted by the pronouncements of self-appointed "math police," to the effect that the old millennium would actually end and the new one would really begin during the night when 2000 became 2001.
One would think the same misguided souls would be out "correcting" the tendency of people to be going around talking about "the end of the decade" in about two weeks, since "technically" (and, in my opinion, erroneously) said first decade doesn't end until a little over a year from now.
I like to think this is a trend in math policing, but I doubt it (and here I have in mind what Einstein had to say about how he wasn't sure the universe was infinite). Me, I hope to mark the end of the decade in style, in just over two weeks!
Every day marks the start of a new millennium, and a new decade, for that matter.
Cheers...
Back at the end of 2000, I put in my two coppers about the start of the "new" millennium (Have you had your millennium yet?), which was partially prompted by the pronouncements of self-appointed "math police," to the effect that the old millennium would actually end and the new one would really begin during the night when 2000 became 2001.
One would think the same misguided souls would be out "correcting" the tendency of people to be going around talking about "the end of the decade" in about two weeks, since "technically" (and, in my opinion, erroneously) said first decade doesn't end until a little over a year from now.
I like to think this is a trend in math policing, but I doubt it (and here I have in mind what Einstein had to say about how he wasn't sure the universe was infinite). Me, I hope to mark the end of the decade in style, in just over two weeks!
Every day marks the start of a new millennium, and a new decade, for that matter.
Cheers...
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Date: 2009-12-15 03:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-15 02:18 pm (UTC)Perhaps "the twenty-oughts"?
Cheers...