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[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

The “2000s” also has no meaning for defining a specific time period. It should mean 2001-2010, but I’ve also never heard anyone seriously refer to 2011-2020 as the “teens” and 2021-2025 as the “twenties.” Those words are already associated with decades that we still culturally reference.

We’re a quarter of a century in and I still don’t know how to precisely refer to a 21st-century decade.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Yup, I just say the numbers (2001-2010) to make sure I'm understood properly. It's dumb.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

“It was back it the early 2000s, around 2013 or so….”