I grew up in the 90s and I remember being able to truncate the year down to just 2 numbers when talking about years within the current millennium. It seems like we’re still saying twenty before every year and I’m just wondering when that will change.
Depends on the language honestly. In my native language (that’s not English) it sounds somewhat clumsy with the zero in front, but it’s still sometimes used. Depending on the context it might be a simple number (zero two) or it might be an ordinal (zero second). From 2010 and on it’s been easier because you just say the equivalent of “tenth”, “eleventh” and so on.
In writing it also depends on the context - if it’s something ambiguous (that could be 1925 or 2025), then sure, write the full year, otherwise two digits are fine.
Back in 21
I’ve been doing that since -01
Did you say “aught one”?
Nolla-yks in my language
Oh, cool! I enjoyed saying “aught” because it’s an archaic word for zero, so I felt like an old-timer whenever I said it.
It started this year actually. 2025 is being called “the big 25” as slang.
We already do in colloquial Japanese.
IMHO when the two digit year equals the median age of all living people.
In other words, when the people who are born in 2xxx become the majority. That’s probably somewhere in the thirties.
(Not counting the ones who use a different year number, for example Chinese, Jews…)
ISO8601 / RFC3339 gang represent. You’ll have to take four digit years from my cold, dead hands.
Spitting hot truth.
I prefer mm/yy/dd or 2013.158904109.
Valid opinion, I myself am partial to just straight ingesting Unix time.
mm/yy/ddis so cursed, thanks I hate it.
I hope never so we never have Y2K again
Boy do I have bad news
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_formatting_and_storage_bugs
It’s important to say the “20” prefix so that viewers will know that we’re set in “the future.”
You can now …it’s the 20s
I’ve been doing it since '01 (pronounced “Oh-Won”). I thought everyone else has been too?
Nah, I couldn’t even bring myself to say “twenty” something until 2013. Before that it was all like “two thousand and five”.
Still saying the twenty part. Not sure when that can fall away. Since I was around for the nineteens, maybe I’ll never stop.
Did you ever say ninety hundred? For example ninety hundred and ninety nine.
Time to ruin your day. They’ve been calling that time period the “aughties”.
I prefer “naughties”
Time to ruin your day…
The words naughties and aughties are interchangeable and we have been calling them that since 2000.
Most English-spealking people outside the US said ‘aught’ instead of ‘oh’, but definitely about 2005 the ‘two thousand and’ syntax evaporated.
In UK I’ve mostly have heard ‘naughties’ for the decade sine about 1999. But I rarely heard “naughty X” as a year name unless someone was being even more deliberately daft. I’d say “oh” would be most common here after “two thousand and X” too in my experience.
I always thought that “'aught” was an American contraction of ‘naught’.
“aught” in old timey-English can mean “other” or “else” or even “anything”. In my local dialect we still say “owt” meaning “anything” as an opposite of “nowt” nothing".
Our quirky university president tried very hard to make “aughty-aught” happen for 2000. It did not catch on.
I think Australian’s usually say “oh”. Signed an Aussie that’s spent enough time abroad to confuse himself on what they actually say
Nah at definitely say oh one.
Never heard anyone say aught one or aught 2, just sounds dumb
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Considering my kids already refer to pre millennial days as the ancient 19’s, you can already do it with the younger crowd.
I started this year, and I think you can refer to years as far back as '22 without it feeling awkward.
Me too.
You can now If you want. Who cares?
I wouldn’t start right now. That would be too drastic. At least leave it till tomorrow.
Just start by dropping it down to 3 numbers and see how you go from there.
My favourite year was 201, a lot happened.
That was my favorite decade
My century
In the 30s you can start talking about the 20s. It will be annoying at first because people will try to be funny and/or get intentionally get confused that you’re talking about the 1920s.
I’d imagine talking the way you’re being nostalgic about will be in full swing by the 2040s.
