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The End of the Decade, Good-Bye, and Hello

Fool

ALL in all
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well looks like we're inching ever closer to another new year baby's arrival and the aging of another.


another decade has come and gone.


so we moving from the 2010's into the 2020's maybe we'll have better insight?


come dancing. dance with me. let me see your heart rise up and spread across your face again across the years gone bye and now here we are again. dance with me in your heart my friend. the lights flashing across your face as we ride like surfers on the waves of music. dance with me again.


o the voyage across the ages like ra in his barq only to see the dawn upon a loved one's face.


let your light shine before men.


 

Stevicus

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I always wondered what the Roaring 20's were like, and soon I'll be able to find out.
 

Stevicus

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The decade doesn't end until the end of 2020

I guess it depends on how you look at it. Oftentimes, decades are defined by terms such as "the twenties," "the thirties," etc.

I remember having the exact same discussion around the year 1980. And I had to wonder: "How could someone seriously suggest that the year 1980 was not a part of the 1980s?"
 

Altfish

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I guess it depends on how you look at it. Oftentimes, decades are defined by terms such as "the twenties," "the thirties," etc.

I remember having the exact same discussion around the year 1980. And I had to wonder: "How could someone seriously suggest that the year 1980 was not a part of the 1980s?"
Well, if you start at Year Zero, i.e. 0000 after 10 years it is 0010; a further 10 years gives you 0020 - extrapolate that to recent times the end of the decade is the year ending in a zero; hence end of 2020.
 

Stevicus

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The key point was towards the end of the article:

Using a modified Julian date, the 2020s will begin on Jan. 1, 2021, Dr. Mac Low said.

But that is out of sync with common usage. According to Emily Brewster, a senior editor at Merriam-Webster, a decade in popular culture is not defined by scientific convention. Because of this, the 2020s will begin on Jan. 1, 2020, and end on Dec. 31, 2029, Ms. Brewster said.

“It is interesting that there is this arbitrariness,” she said. “It’s unconventional, like language.”

The article referenced in TimeandDate.com also mentioned "round number bias" (Did the Millennium Start in Year 2000 or 2001?):

Round Number Bias
Of course, the big fuss over the year 2000, or Y2K, was understandable from a psychological point of view. The human brain is predisposed to highlight “big numbers”—a tendency psychologists call the round number bias. It causes us to throw extra-glamorous parties on our 20th, 30th, or 40th birthdays and to celebrate milestones like the 1000th like on Facebook or the 100th victory of our favorite sports team.

So, in celebrating the beginning of the year 2000 as the event of a lifetime, we collectively succumbed to the appeal of the big, round year number—a classic case of round number bias.

I recall an article around the time of Y2K where someone insisted that the new millennium started on January 1, 2000 and enjoined readers to disregard and forget the killjoys who insisted that it started on January 1, 2001.
 
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